This is the archive of the blogs I wrote about my academic work. I did a PhD in the neuroscience of language, focusing on sound symbolism (or how we link the sounds we make with the things we mean). I won’t be writing about it much from now on, but I’ll leave the posts archived up here.
Not all who wander are lost, but it takes work to wander well [originally written as a guest post on My Scholarly Goop]
Synthesised size/sound sound symbolism: the MS Paint version
How iconicity helps people learn new words: the MS Paint version
Sound-symbolism boosts novel word learning: the MS Paint version
Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses: the MS Paint version
Putting the graph into electroencephalography
From codas to coding: how to make the move from linguistics into experimental research