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EMAIL lucy.macgregor@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
College Murray Edwards College
Department
  • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
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    Research Theme The Social Brain Adaptive Brain Computations Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing
    Research Focus

    Keywords

  • Speech Comprehension
  • Semantics
  • Language
  • Executive Function
  • Individual Differences

    • Clinical Conditions

  • Language disorders

    • Equipment & Techniques

  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
  • Behavioural analysis

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    Lucy MacGregor

    (she/her/hers)
    University Position
    Investigator Scientist

    Interests

    My research explores the neurocognitive processes involved in spoken language comprehension, using MEG, EEG and behavioural methodologies.

    Collaborators

    Cambridge
  • Matt Davis
  • Mate Aller

    • Key Publications

    Causal Contributions of the Domain-General (Multiple Demand) and the Language-Selective Brain Networks to Perceptual and Semantic Challenges in Speech Comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00081
    Journal: Neurobiol Lang (Camb)
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, RA Gilbert, Z Balewski, DJ Mitchell, SW Erzinçlioğlu, JM Rodd, J Duncan, E Fedorenko, MH Davis

    The Neural Time Course of Semantic Ambiguity Resolution in Speech Comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01493
    Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2020
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, JM Rodd, RA Gilbert, O Hauk, E Sohoglu, MH Davis

    Sustained meaning activation for polysemous but not homonymous words: evidence from EEG.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.008
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    E-pub date: 1 Feb 2015
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, J Bouwsema, E Klepousniotou

    Ultra-rapid access to words in the brain.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1715
    Journal: Nat Commun
    E-pub date: 28 Feb 2012
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, F Pulvermüller, M van Casteren, Y Shtyrov

    It’s the way that you, er, say it: hesitations in speech affect language comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2006.10.010
    Journal: Cognition
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2007
    Authors: M Corley, LJ MacGregor, DI Donaldson

    Publications

    Vocabulary knowledge and non-verbal IQ predict successful comprehension of ambiguous sentences

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2022-pclzl
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 28 Nov 2022
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, F Peters, RA Gilbert, MH Davis

    A deep hierarchy of predictions enables assignment of semantic roles in online speech comprehension

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.01.486694
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: Y Su, LJ MacGregor, I Olasagasti, A-L Giraud

    Anterior temporal lobe is necessary for efficient lateralised processing of spoken word identity.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.12.025
    Journal: Cortex
    E-pub date: 1 May 2020
    Authors: TE Cope, Y Shtyrov, LJ MacGregor, R Holland, F Pulvermüller, JB Rowe, K Patterson

    Hemispheric contributions to language reorganisation: An MEG study of neuroplasticity in chronic post stroke aphasia.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.006
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2016
    Authors: B Mohr, LJ MacGregor, S Difrancesco, K Harrington, F Pulvermüller, Y Shtyrov

    Near-instant automatic access to visually presented words in the human neocortex: neuromagnetic evidence.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/srep26558
    Journal: Sci Rep
    E-pub date: 24 May 2016
    Authors: Y Shtyrov, LJ MacGregor

    Ultra-rapid access to words in chronic aphasia: the effects of intensive language action therapy (ILAT).

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-014-0398-y
    Journal: Brain Topogr
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2015
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, S Difrancesco, F Pulvermüller, Y Shtyrov, B Mohr

    Concreteness effects in single-meaning, multi-meaning and newly acquired words.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.09.015
    Journal: Brain Res
    E-pub date: 13 Nov 2013
    Authors: SD Palmer, LJ Macgregor, J Havelka

    Multiple routes for compound word processing in the brain: evidence from EEG.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.04.002
    Journal: Brain Lang
    E-pub date: 31 Aug 2013
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, Y Shtyrov

    Semantics, syntax or neither? A case for resolution in the interpretation of N500 and P600 responses to harmonic incongruities.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076600
    Journal: PLoS One
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
    Authors: CR Featherstone, CM Morrison, MG Waterman, LJ MacGregor

    Past tense in the brain’s time: neurophysiological evidence for dual-route processing of past-tense verbs.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.065
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 May 2013
    Authors: I Bakker, LJ Macgregor, F Pulvermüller, Y Shtyrov

    Listening to the sound of silence: disfluent silent pauses in speech have consequences for listeners.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.024
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2010
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, M Corley, DI Donaldson

    Not all disfluencies are are equal: The effects of disfluent repetitions on language comprehension.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2009.07.003
    Journal: Brain Lang
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2009
    Authors: LJ MacGregor, M Corley, DI Donaldson

    Attention orienting effects of hesitations in speech: evidence from ERPs.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.34.3.696
    Journal: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
    E-pub date: 1 May 2008
    Authors: P Collard, M Corley, LJ MacGregor, DI Donaldson