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Research interests
I am interested in how the human reading system processes printed words, with a particular focus on units that carry meaning ("morphemes"). Besides my focus on rapid, automatic reading mechanisms in adults, I am also interested in how children learn to read and when during reading development word processing becomes more intuitive and automatized.
For more detail, have a look at my lab's website.
Biography
Education
I completed a Bachelor of Science with a major in Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2003.
I then commenced a Master of Science degree at the University of Stuttgart in 2003, while shifting my research focus to Psycholinguistics. My Masters project was hosted by Prof Friedemann Pulvermueller at the University of Cambridge, UK, where I spent most of 2005. I used the recordings of event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate rapid, spoken language processing in the brain, and completed my degree in 2006.
In 2007, I moved to Australia to undertake a PhD in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University under the supervision of Prof Anne Castles and Prof Max Coltheart. My PhD project focused on understanding how children and adults rapidly read words that contain multiple morphemes (e.g. un-pack-ing) using experimental methods such as lexical decision and masked priming.
Employment
Following my PhD, I was awarded four consecutive internationally competitive research fellowships which allowed me to carry out several years of in-depth research in the field of reading and reading acquisition and expand my collaborative network.
I spent 3.5 years (2013-2016) as a postdoctoral research fellow within the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory (LPC) at Aix-Marseille University, France, which was funded by the award of an internationally competitive full-time FYSSEN Foundation research fellowship (2 years), followed by a prestigious Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Brain & Language Research Institute (1.5 years).
In October 2016, I moved back to Australia to take up a 3-year full-time Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF).
I am currently employed as an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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ARC DP20: When reading takes off: Children's word learning during independent reading
Castles, A., Nation, K., Beyersmann, L. & Reichle, E.
Project: Research
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CFR: Macquarie University Centre for Reading
Castles, A., McArthur, G., Parrila, R., Badcock, N., Banales, E., Beyersmann, L., Chik, A., Coltheart, M., Cupples, L., Cutler, H., Djonov, E., Kinoshita, S., Kohnen, S., Kruger, J., Menary, R., Nickels, L., Reichle, E., Ryan, M., Wang, H. & Yu, L.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), 2-6 September 2017
3/09/17 → 6/09/17
Project: Research
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Acquisition of orthographic forms via spoken complex word training
Beyersmann, E., Wegener, S., Spencer, J. & Castles, A., Apr 2023, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 30, 2, p. 739–750 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cross-language influences on morphological processing in bilinguals
Kahraman, H. & Beyersmann, L., 2023, Cross-language influences in bilingual processing and second language acquisition. Elgort, I., Siyanova-Chanturia, A. & Brysbaert, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 230-261 32 p. (Bilingual Processing and Acquisition; no. 16).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Eye movements during reading
Wegener, S., Yu, L., Reichle, E., Beyersmann, E., Parrila, R. & Castles, A., Feb 2023, In: Frontiers for young minds. 11, p. 1-8 8 p., 769381.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey
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Orthographic expectancies in the absence of contextual support
Wegener, S., Wang, H-C., Beyersmann, L., Nation, K., Colenbrander, D. & Castles, A., 4 Mar 2023, In: Scientific Studies of Reading. 27, 2, p. 187-197 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Previewing novel words before reading affects their processing during reading: an eye-movement study with first and second language readers
Elgort, I., Wetering, R. V. D., Arrow, T. & Beyersmann, E., 17 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language Learning. 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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