Anastasiya Lopukhina

Same-language subtitles can’t teach children how to read. New paper published in Psychological Science, co-authored with @Kathy_Rastle, @beckscrowley, and Walter van Heuven and funded by the Nuffield Foundation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Interested? 🧵👇

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light…

** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website. cyp-lex.rastlelab.com

** Subtitles - not a magic bullet for literacy ** Find out about our new research published in @PsychScience (tinyurl.com/SLSubtitles) @RHULPsychology @RoyalHolloway @notts_psych @NiftyFoxCreativ @RHSocSci @a_lopukhina

Where Do Children Look when Watching Videos with Same-Language Subtitles? Interested? You can read more here: rastlelab.com/post/where-do-…

In a new study, led by Royal Holloway in collaboration with UoN and funded by Nuffield Foundation, the eye movements of 180 primary school children in Years 1-6 were tracked, whilst they watched movies with & without subtitle. Link here: nottingham.ac.uk/news/research-…

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :)

3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension June 5–7, 2025 University of Stuttgart, Germany This cross-disciplinary workshop explores how eye-tracking and machine learning can enhance real-world reading assessments. tmalsburg.github.io/ComprehensionW…

Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words By: Anna Chrabaszcz, Nina Ladinskaya & @a_lopukhina Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper in @NatHumBeh shows that pupils in low- and middle-income countries #LMICs are failing to acquire the most basic subskills needed for reading comprehension. Evidence-aligned #phonics instruction needed to meet global literacy goals #SDGs 📚 nature.com/articles/s4156…