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Qu Qingqing

1st Year Postgraduate
Supervisor : Dr Markus Damian

telephone: +44 (0)117 92 88494 email: qq8855@bris.ac.uk

4D26, 12a Priory Road

Biographical details

I graduated from the QuFu Normal University, China in 2007 with a BSc in Psychology. I started to do a M.A. in History of Education at the QuFu Normal University in 2007. I joined the Department Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol in 2008 as a taught postgraduate, and completed an M.Sc in Research Methods in Psychology in 2009 and my dissertation, supervised by Markus Damian, investigated lexical access in Mandarin Chinese speech production in the picture-picture interference paradigm. In September 2009, I began a three-year PhD supervised by Markus Damian.


Research interests

The aim of my Ph. D is to investigate the role of phonology in written production of single and multiple words. Early theory argues that handwriting entirely depend on the retrieval of phonological codes (‘phonological mediation’ theories). However, ‘orthographic autonomy’ view argues that orthographic representation can be directly accessed from semantic representation, without phonological codes. Most relevant studies which tried to solve this controversy have investigated single word written production. However, as proposed by Tainturier and Rapp (2001), the role of phonology in writing may be more pronounced in multiple words production than single word production. This is because the demand on short-term memory being greater for multiple words than for single words, and rehearsal in short-term memory is generally believed to involve phonological codes. I propose to compare the role of phonology in single and multiple words written production directly.

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