I am a Senior Research Associate in the Language and Brain Laboratory where I work on an ERC-funded Synergy grant (2025-2031) and an EPSRC-funded grant (2022-2027). I am responsible for the design, execution, and statistical analysis of experiments. I have training in psycholinguistic (reaction time, priming, judgement) and neurolinguistic (EEG and fMRI) methodologies, statistical modelling, fieldwork, and the analysis and visualisation of experimental data. I also serve as a tutor for FHS Paper B4: Psycholinguistics, and provide supervision for undergraduate and graduate research projects taking place in the Lab.

My current research involves experimentally investigating asymmetries in affixation, the interaction between orthography and phonology, wordhood and non-wordhood, and super-complex morphological constructions. My other research area is language and expertise: specifically, the planning, processing and production of specialised languages by the experts that use them. My current projects, funded by the John Fell Fund, and the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, are investigating the effects of nonstandard phraseology on the brain in the field of aviation.  

Prior to my current position, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psycholinguistics (2017-2022), Departmental Lecturer in Psycholinguistics (2020-2021), Departmental Lecturer in Phonology (2015-2016) all at the University of Oxford, and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester (2015-2017).

Select Publications:

Wynne, H.S.Z., Zhou, B., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2025). The effect of complex orthography on the visual processing of affixed words. Cognition, 265.

Lahiri, A., Booth, J., Fritz, I., Lindsay-Smith, E., Sytsema, J., Wynne, H. (2025). Pertinacity in diachrony and synchrony. Historical Linguistics. John Benjamins.

Wynne, H. S., Kotzor, S., Zhou, B., Schuster, S., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Asymmetries in the processing of affixed words in Bengali. Language, 97(3), pp. 599-628.

Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H. S., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of asymmetric processing of consonant duration in fake Mandarin geminates. Neuropsychologia, 163, 108063.

Meng, Y., Wynne, H., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Representation of “T3 sandhi” in Mandarin: significance of context. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(6), 791-808.

Wynne, H.S.Z., Wheeldon, L., Lahiri A. (2018) Compounds, phrases and clitics in connected speech, Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 98, February 2018, pp. 45-58, ISSN 0749-596X.