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How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla.
(PLOS, 2024-04-18)This paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script. The study aims to uncover how visual stimuli are processed and mapped ... -
Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and Ending the Ukraine War
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)This article argues that an understanding of the successful process which led to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (GFA) provides a useful context for understanding the constraints and opportunities for peace making in ... -
Mapping affective circuits of a Twitter trolling attack against feminist arts-based pedagogy during the COVID-19 global pandemic
(Tay, 2022)We examine a Twitter attack against our phEmaterialist pedagogy during a UK-wide COVID-19 lockdown. We explore how trolls swarmed together in a collective mocking and ridiculing of images of colorful Play-doh genital models ... -
“The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”: New Cosmopolitanism and Pacifist Warriors
(2022-01-01)Since the end of the Cold War “New Cosmopolitans” have justified the renaissance of “righteous war” by providing cosmopolitan, humanitarian, human rights and even pacifist justifications for military intervention. This ... -
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq
(2024-03-01)President George W. Bush required only symbolic British participation in the invasion of Iraq, so why did the Labour government deploy their maximum military effort when this was unnecessary and considerably increased the ... -
Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right
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Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice
(2024-01-01)Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice ...