This is the part with the archive of the blogs I wrote about my academic work. I did a PhD in the neuroscience of language, focusing on sound symbolism (or how we link the sounds we make with the things we mean), and it was a lot of fun. I now work in data visualisation, which is what I’ll be writing about most now, and that’s also a lot of fun.
Synthesised size/sound sound symbolism: the MS Paint version
How iconicity helps people learn new words: the MS Paint version
Sound-symbolism boosts novel word learning: the MS Paint version
Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses: the MS Paint version
Putting the graph into electroencephalography
From codas to coding: how to make the move from linguistics into experimental research
Let's get vizzical 