Research

 Research

• Psychology of reading: especially processes involved in single visual word recognition, impact of visual features on words, processing of SMS text, children's reading and reading development.
• I'm a member of the Vision and Language group.

Recent Publications & Conferences

• Webb, T. M. (2009). How we read. Junior Education Plus, 9, 554.
• Webb, T. M., Beech, J. R., Mayall, K. A.,  & Andrews, A. S. (2006). It's what's on the outside that matters: An advantage for external features in children's word recognition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94 (2), 163-181.
  Webb, T. M., Mayall, K. A. & Beech, J. R. (submitted). Confounded age of acquisition: is there a frequency by regularity interaction in reading development after all?
• July 2000, PsyPAG Annual Conference, Glasgow.
  Poster Title: Case mixing Effects on Children's visual word recognition.
• July 2001, PsyPAG Annual Conference, Sheffield.
  Presentation Title: Case mixing Effects on Children's visual word recognition.
• July 2002, PsyPAG Annual Conference, Cardiff.
  Presentation Title: Age of acquisition, not frequency interacts with consistency in beginning readers.
• January 2003, EPS London Meeting, UCL.
  Presentation Title: Age of acquisition, not frequency interacts with consistency in beginning readers.
• September 2004, BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Leeds.
  Presentation Title: The external feature advantage and reading development.
• January 2006, EPS London Meeting, UCL.
  Presentation Title: It's what's on the outside that matters: An advantage for external features in children's word recognition.
• March 2008, Invited speaker, Annual Psychology Conference, Middlesex University, Dubai.
  Presentation Title: The perception of taste and smell.
• April 2009, EPS Leicester Meeting
  Presentation Title: Is the locus of the AoA effect lexical or semantic in nature?
• May 2009, Doctoral inaugaral lecture, Leicester University
  Presentation Title: What impact does the age we learn words have on reading?

• Recent Grants

• Paterson, K. B., & Webb, T. (2005-2006). £7,476 awarded by the Nuffield Social Science Small Grants scheme to study "Age-of-Acquisition effects in visual word recognition". 

Other interests

• PsyPAG: Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group
• The chocolate tasting club (Runner up in the design a chocolate competition with the 'Maple Pecan Crunch')