Professor Simon Liversedge

Professor of Experimental Psychology, Northumbria University. My research interests lie in the field of cognitive psychology, and in particular eye movements, reading and human visual cognition. Throughout my career, I has used eye movement recording techniques to investigate many aspects of human visual, linguistic and cognitive processing. The measurement of eye movements during reading and other visually mediated tasks provides an excellent online behavioural measure from which inferences concerning current cognitive processing can be made.  I have used this method very often in my research.  I am also interested in co-registration methods (simultaneous recordings of eye movements and other signals such as EEG and MEG).  In my research investigating reading, I have developed a keen interest in how people read in languages other than English.

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• Development of orthographic, phonological and semantic parafoveal processing in Chinese reading, Liu, M., Li, S., Meng, Z., Wang, Y., Zang, C., Yan, G., Liversedge, S. 1 Apr 2026, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Exploring effects of foveal load and preview restrictions for single and multiple parafoveal words in Chinese reading, Zhang, M., Zhang, Z., Li, F., Bai, X., Zang, C., Liversedge, S. 1 Feb 2026, In: Journal of Memory and Language
• Aging and word predictability during reading: Evidence from eye movements and fixation-related potentials, Pagán, A., Degno, F., Milledge, S., Kirkden, R., White, S., Liversedge, S., Paterson, K. 28 Jan 2025, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
• Auditory distraction during reading: Investigating the effects of background sounds on parafoveal processing, Rettie, L., Marsh, J., Liversedge, S., Wang, M., Degno, F. 1 Jun 2025, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Correction to: Aging and word predictability during reading: Evidence from eye movements and fixation‑related potentials, Pagán, A., Degno, F., Milledge, S., Kirkden, R., White, S., Liversedge, S., Paterson, K. 1 Jul 2025, In: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
• Does meaningful background speech modulate predictability effects during Chinese reading?, Zang, C., Wang, S., Guan, Y., Meng, Z., Zhang, M., Liversedge, S. 18 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• Effects of irrelevant speech on semantic and phonological judgments of Chinese characters, Meng, Z., Yan, G., Marsh, J., Liversedge, S. 18 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• Parafoveal Processing and Transposed-Letter Effects in Developmental Dyslexic Reading, Kirkby, J., Barrington, R., Drieghe, D., Liversedge, S. 1 Feb 2025, In: Dyslexia
• Primary task demands modulate background speech disruption during reading of Chinese tongue twisters: an eye-tracking study, Meng, Z., Yan, G., Marsh, J., Liversedge, S. 18 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• The effect of emotion on recognition accuracy, intensity and response bias to vocal expressions in adolescents and adults with externalising and internalising symptoms, Sells, R., Liversedge, S., Chronaki, G. 31 Dec 2025