Mehdi Purmohammad

Area of Study / Keywords

Dyslexia reading difficulties prosodic processing bilingualism

About

I am a PhD graduate of psycholinguisitcs from the University of Bern in Switzerland (2015). I am pursuing a second PhD in Special Education. My supervisor is Professor Lesly Wade-Woolley. I am working on the prosodic fluency in individuals with dyslexia.

I hold a MSc. degree in Psychology of language from the University of Edinburgh in UK (2012). I also hold a master’s degree in Teaching Persian to non-Persian speakers from the Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran. 

Research

Featured Publications:

Peer Reviewed papers:

Soleimani Tekbudak, F., Purmohammad, M., Ozkan, A., & Acarturk, C. (accepted). The PSR Corpus: A Persian Sentence Reading Corpus of Eye Movements. Behavior Research Methods.

Purmohammad, M., Vorwerg, C. & Abutalebi, J. (2022). The processing of bilingual (switched) compound verbs: Competition of words from different categories for lexical selection. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition. 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921001103

Irani, D., & Purmohammad, M. (2023). Comparison of language awareness in Kurdish-Persian bilingual children and Persian monolingual children. Applied neuropsychology. Child, 12(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2022.2029447

Moayedfar, S., Purmohammad, M., Shafa, N., Shafa, N., & Ghasisin, L. (2019). Analysis of naming processing stages in patients with mild Alzheimer. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. 28:1, 107-116, https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2019.1599894

Khalili Ardali, M., Purmohammad, M., Ujwal Chaudhary, U., Birbaumer, M. & Rana, A. (2019). Semantic and BCI-Performance in completely paralyzed patients: the possibility of language attrition in completely locked-in syndrome. Brain and Language. 194:93-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.05.004

Purmohammad, M. (2015). Grammatical encoding in bilingual language production: A focus on code switching. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01797 

Purmohammad, M. (2015). Linguistic Alignment in L1-L2 Dialogue. Language and Dialogue, John Benjamins Publishing, Vol. 5(2), 312–333. https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.5.2.07pur

BOOKS:

Purmohammad, M. (2024). The Parents’ Guide to Dyslexia: Practical Strategies for Success and Understanding: An extensive theoretical and practical guide for parents of children with dyslexia and teachers,   [Kindle version]. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCT3JDB8?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

Purmohammad, M. (2021). New methods and tools in language studies. SAMT.Tehran, Iran.

Purmohammad, M. (2019). Psycholinguistics. SAMT.Tehran, Iran.

Teaching

PSYCH 323: Infant & Child Development

PSYCH 323 - Infant and Child Development

Biological, cognitive and social aspects of psychological development during the period from infancy to childhood. Prerequisite: PSYCH 223. [Faculty of Arts]

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