Federica Degno

Federica is a Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience in the School of Psychology and Computer Science. Her research interests lie in the field of cognitive and experimental psychology, and in particular human visual cognition and language processing.

Federica works in the EEG and Co-Registration laboratory, and Eye Movement laboratory. She uses a variety of experimental techniques such as eye movements, event-related potentials, and fixation-related potentials (i.e., event-related potentials time-locked to fixation onsets) to investigate the perceptual and cognitive processes underlying reading.

In her current role, Federica supervises undergraduate and postgraduate projects, and PhD students. She also contributes to teaching and assessment of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including PS1030 Introduction to Psychobiology and Cognition, PS1685 Brain and Behaviour, PS2850 Topics and Techniques in Neuroscience, PS4010 Quantitative Psychological Research. As part of her administrative duties, Federica serves on the UCLan Science Ethics Committee.

PhD Psychology, University of Southampton, 2019
MSc Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2013
BSc Psychological Science and Techniques, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2010

Modules Taught

PS1030 - Introduction to Psychobiology and Cognition
PS1685 - Brain and Behaviour
PS2850 - Topics & Techniques in Neuroscience
PS3900 - Psychology Project
PS4010 - Quantitative Psychological Research
PS4090 - Psychology Conversion Project

Reading
Language
Visual Cognition
Eye Movements
Event-Related Potentials
Fixation-Related Potentials

North-West Visual Cognition Group, Member of the Steering Committee (2019 – Present)
Psychonomic Society, Member (2019 – Present)
European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Full Member (2019 – 2020)
Higher Education Academy, Associate Fellow (2015 – Present)

Federica’s primary research interest is in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology. She is particularly interested in the foveal and parafoveal processing in reading, the link between behavioural measures (such as eye movements) and neural measures (such as brain potentials), and the application of novel experimental approaches to investigate reading. Federica is happy to be contacted by students who may be interested in doing their undergraduate final year project, MSc research project, PhD on reading, or language more in general, using eye movement, event-related potential, or fixation-related potential methodologies. To discuss opportunities to carry out this type of research, please contact Federica via email.

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Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience
Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour
EEG and Co-Registration laboratory
Eye Movement laboratory

Reading in English and Chinese
Auditory distraction during reading
Reading in younger and older adults

Degno, F., Wei, L., Liversedge, S. P., Wang, M., & Zang, C. (2019). Parafoveal Processing of Phonetic and Semantic Radicals in Chinese Reading. 60th annual Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Montréal (Canada), November 14-17.
Degno, F., Soltész, F., Hepsomali, P., Donnelly, N., & Liversedge, S. P. (2019). Effects of stimulus quality and word frequency during sentence reading. 20th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Alicante (Spain), August 18-22.
Degno, F., Loberg, O., Zang, C., Zhang, M., Donnelly, N., & Liversedge, S. P. (2018). Co-registration of eye movements and EEG to investigate parafoveal inter-word spacing, parafoveal preview and word length effects in reading. 8th China International Conference on Eye Movements (CICEM), Nanjin Normal University, Nanjin (China), May 26-28.

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Telephone:+44 (0)1772 89 4472

Email:fdegno@uclan.ac.uk

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Dr Federica Degno