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Lucy MacGregor

Research Staff, Hearing, Speech and Language Group

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Lucy MacGregor

Contact details

E-mail address: lucy.macgregor@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 860)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273708
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

Research

  • Cognitive and neural processes involved in speech comprehension.
  • Magneto- and electro-encephalography (M/EEG)

Publications

  • MacGregor, L.J., Pulvermüller, F., van Casteren, M., & Shtyrov, Y. (2012). Ultra-rapid access to words in the brain. Nature Communications, 3: 711.
  • MacGregor, L.J., Corley, M., & Donaldson, D.I. (2010). Listening to the sound of silence: Investigating the consequences of disfluent silent pauses in speech for listeners. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3982.
  • Li L., & MacGregor, L.J. (2010). Investigating the receptive vocabulary size of university-level Chinese learners of English: how suitable is the Vocabulary Levels Test? Language and Education, 24, 239-249.
  • MacGregor, L.J., Corley, M., & Donaldson, D.I. (2009). Not all disfluencies are are equal: the effects of disfluent repetitions on language comprehension. Brain and Language, 111, 36-45.
  • Collard, P., Corley, M., MacGregor, L.J., & Donaldson, D.I. (2008). Attention orienting effects of hesitations in speech: evidence from ERPs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 24, 696-702.
  • Corley, M., MacGregor, L.J., & Donaldson, D.I. (2007). It's the way that you, er, say it: hesitations in speech affect language comprehension. Cognition, 105, 658-668.