Curriculum Vitae

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At a Glance

Experience / Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Purdue Aphasia Research Lab	August 2022 – present
PhD (Psycholinguistics)	University of Essex	September 2019 – July 2022
MA (Psycholinguistics)	University of Essex	September 2018 – September 2019
BA (Hons) (English)	Birmingham City University	September 2015 – July 2018
*Teaching Experience*
Assistant Lecturer Understanding Data in Linguistics	University of Essex	2020-2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant Child Language Development	University of Essex	2019
Classroom Assistant	Birmingham City University	2017-2018

Van Boxtel, W.S. & Lawyer, L.A. (2022) Syntactic comprehension priming and lexical boost effects in older adults. Language, Cognition, Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2091151
Van Boxtel, W.S. & Lawyer, L.A. (2021) Sentence comprehension in ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease. Language and Linguistics Compass, e12430. 10.1111/lnc3.12430
Van Boxtel, W.S. & Lawyer, L.A. (submitted.) A Matter of Memory? Age-invariant relative clause disambiguation and memory interference in older adults. Special Issue on Aging Language: understanding how human cognition changes as we grow old; Topics in Cognitive Science. https://osf.io/eympz/
Van Boxtel, W.S. & Lawyer, L.A. (submitted). In the Prime of Life: ERP evidence for syntactic comprehension priming in older adults. https://osf.io/3yrnv/
Jerro, K., Lawyer, L.A., Ngoboka, J., O’Gara, F., and Van Boxtel, W.S. (submitted). The Psychological Reality of Noun Classes in Kinyarwanda
Van Boxtel, W.S., Cox, B., Keen, A., and Lee, J. (in prep.) Anticipatory processing in aphasia: Evidence from structural Priming. Frontiers in Language Sciences. https://osf.io/7apc3/
Van Boxtel, W.S., Linge, M., Manning, R.C.G., Haven, L., and Lee, J. (in prep.) Online eye-tracking for aphasiology and linguistics: a feasibility study. https://osf.io/n6gu7/.

Contributing author: “Special Issue on Aging Language: understanding how human cognition changes as we grow old.” Topics in Cognitive Science. Autumn 2022.
Reviewer: Nature Scientific Reports
Reviewer: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
Reviewer: Neuropsychology Review
Reviewer: Cognition
Reviewer: Frontiers in Education
Conference Organisation: Language at the University of Essex (LangUE) 2021.

EEG/ERP recording and analysis.
Eyetracking (EyeLink & Online through WebGazer.js) recording and analysis
Experiment building in OpenSesame, PsychoPy, E-Prime, Experiment Builder
LaTex
R language, Markdown, Unix/Linux, Python, Matlab/EEGlab
Bayesian regression modelling, linear mixed modelling (including generalised/logit)

Purdue Institute for Integratve Neuroscience Travel Award (Dec ’22)
University of Essex Social Sciences Doctoral Scholarship (May ’18)
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom)
Faculty of Social Sciences Dean’s Fund (Psychology of Noun Classes in Kinyarwanda)
Howard Jackson Prize (Birmingham City University)