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., Özkan, A., & Acartürk, C. (2025). The PSR Corpus: A Persian Sentence Reading Corpus of Eye Movements. Behavior Research Methods. 57, 14, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02517-x

Irani, D., Purmohammad, M., & Abbasian, S. (2025). A comparative analysis of executive functions in Broca’s aphasia and healthy adults. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2025.2515127

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

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

Nasiri, M., Moayyefar, S. Purmohammad, M. & Ghasisin, L., (2022). Investigating Sentence Processing and Working Memory in Patients with Mild Alzheimer and Healthy Aged People. PLoS ONE, 17(11): e0266552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0266552

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, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Winter, 2024

Awards

2025-Oct     Dr Amna Qureshi Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, CDA 2200

2024-Oct     Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), University of Alberta, CDA 12000

2023-Nov    Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), University of Alberta, CDA 12000

2013            Seed Money Award for Research and Young Researcher promotion, University of Bern, Switzerland, CHF 8000

2014            Josephine de Karman funds, University of Bern, Switzerland, CHF 11000