Nicola is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology with research interests in cognitive and neurobiological aspects of language processing, particularly in the domains of reading and verbal short-term memory. Before joining York St John University, Nicola completed a PhD at Bangor University, in which she used electroencephalography (EEG) to track reading difficulties in developmental dyslexia, and worked at the University of York as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on an ERC project investigating phonological binding in verbal short-term memory. Nicola's research considers various topics related to how and when the sounds and meanings of words influence ongoing language and thought, and how these influences might be understood in terms of differences in brain activity and behaviour.