Dr. Derek Besner
Professor, cognition and perception
BA Loyola College, Montreal, Canada
MSc Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
PhD Reading University, England
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) University Research Fellow (1981-1990)
Research interests
My primary research interests involve basic processes in reading, acquired reading disorders, semantic processing, orthographies and phonologies, computational modeling, intention and control, mental set, and attention and automaticity.