Room 352

Maurice Shock Building

School of Psychology

University of Leicester

Lancaster Road

LE1 9HN

0116 229 7198

vam12@le.ac.uk

http://leicester.academia.edu/VictoriaMcGowan

Vision and Language Group

Supervisors:

Dr Sarah White and Dr Kevin Paterson.

Research Interests:

Parafoveal processing of text, age differences in reading.

Publications:

McGowan, V. A., Paterson, K. B., & Jordan, T. R. (in press). The rarity of assessing the visual abilities of older participants in language research. Experimental Aging Research.

Jordan, T. R., McGowan, V. A., & Paterson, K. B. (2011). Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Rarity of Assessing and Reporting Participants' Visual Abilities When Studying Perception of Linguistic Stimuli. Perception, 40(7), 873-876.

Almabruk, A. A. A., Paterson, K. B., McGowan, V. A., Jordan, T. R. (2011) Evaluating Effects of Divided Hemispheric Processing on Word Recognition in Foveal and Extrafoveal Displays: The Evidence from Arabic. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18131. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018131

Jordan, T. R., Almabruk, A. A. A., McGowan, V. A., & Paterson, K. B. (2011). Evaluating hemispheric divisions in processing fixated words: The evidence from Arabic. Cortex, 47, 992-997.

Conference Presentations:

Paterson, K.B., McGowan, V. A., &  Jordan, T.R. (2012). Spatial frequency filtering reveals age-related differences in reading. Paper to be presented at meeting of the EPS, London, 5-6 January.

Paterson, K.B., McGowan, V. A., &  Jordan, T.R. (2011). Spatial frequency filtering reveals age-related differences in reading. Paper presented at ECEM, Marseille, 21-25 August.

Abubaker, A.A.A., McGowan, V. A., White, S.J., Jordan, T.R., & Paterson, K.B. (2011). Reading Arabic text: Effects of word length on landing positions and fixation durations. Poster presented at ECEM, Marseille, 21-25 August.

Paterson, K.B., Malik, S., McGowan, V. A., White, S.J., & Jordan, T.R. (2011). Asymmetries in the perceptual span of Urdu-English bilinguals. Poster presented at ECEM, Marseille, 21-25 August.