Dr. Kevin B. Paterson is a professor of experimental psychology and head of the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Dr. Paterson was awarded an MA (hons), First Class, in psychology from the University of Glasgow in 1990 and a Ph.D. in psychology also from the University of Glasgow in 1996. Dr. Paterson has held posts at the University of Leicester since 2003 and was promoted to professor in 2016. Dr. Paterson also holds a visiting professorship at Tianjin Normal University in China. Dr. Paterson is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society. The research interests of Dr. Paterson are focused on cognitive mechanisms in reading. This includes investigations of the effects of cognitive aging, as well as studies of reading across different writing systems, including Arabic, Chinese, English, and Mongolian.