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Big Data in Developmental Psychology: Using new technologies for studying early life environments

Speaker: Dr. Sophie von Stumm Title: Big Data in Developmental Psychology: Using new technologies for studying early life environments. Date: 3rd Oct. 2017, 1PM Location: Clore Management Building, Room 101, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX Abstract: Digital technologies will revolutionise

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BASIS Annual Science Meeting

BASIS Network 2017Science Meeting, Date: 29th of September 2017Location: Clore Management Building, Birkbeck, University of LondonContact: ubdcle001@mail.bbk.ac.ukMore Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/basis-annual-science-meeting-2017-tickets-35262725762?utm_term=eventname_text

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CBCD Seminar Series: Professor Manos Tsakiris

Professor Manos Tsakiris Talk Title: Interoception: from homeostasis to self-awareness? Abstract: Modern Psychology has long focused on the importance of the body as the basis of the self. However, this focus concerned the exteroceptive body, that is, the body as perceived

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How Infants Build a Semantic System

Kim Plunkett University of Oxford The ability to identify appropriate referents, given a label, develops rapidly during the second year of life, so that by the time an infant reaches her second birthday she may understand many hundreds, if not

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Longitudinal development of attention and executive functions during the first year of life

7th of March 2017 at 13.00 (External Seminar) Location. B34 Malet Street, Birkbeck College Dr Karla Holmboe University of Essex Longitudinal development of attention and executive functions during the first year of life Executive functions (EF) are a set of skills that allow

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Annette Karmiloff-Smith Women In Psychological Sciences (WIPS) Lecture 2017

Mind the Generation Gap! Uta Frith in conversation with Clare Press, Matthew Longo and Emily Jones. Uta Frith, who looks back on a 50-year research career, will be in conversation with three young researchers, who all have recent experience of

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CBCD Seminar Series: Professor Chris Jarrold

Professor Chris Jarrold Talk Title: Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory Abstract: Verbal short-term memory (VSTM) undoubtedly improves across childhood, and understanding the causes of this increase is of both theoretical and practical importance, given links between VSTM

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CBCD Seminar Series: Professor Gergely Csibra

Professor Gergely Csibra   Talk Title: Human infants infer social relations from observed interactions. Abstract: Observed social interactions between agents provide information not only about their individual dispositions but also about their social relations. Recent studies demonstrate that when human

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INTERLEARN 5 PhD scholarships

Five PhD scolarships in CBCD.  Apply now or  Read more

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CBCD News

  • Birkbeck & UCL awarded £3 million by DfE
    Birkbeck and UCL were awarded £3 million by the Department for Education to establish a new policy research centre focused on
  • STAARS research featured in Channel 5 documentary “Does your child have ADHD?”
    Professor Emily Jones and the STAARS research are featured in Channel 5’s documentary “Does your child have ADHD?”. Watch for a fascinating insight into
  • Does neurodiversity affect eating behaviours in teenagers?
    Dr Virginia Carter Leno is quoted in ‘Children of the 90s’ research blog (based on data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of
  • Prof Denis Mareschal interviewed for evening news impact of screen time on child development
    CBCD Director, Professor Denis Mareschal, was interviewed for both ITV news and Channel5 news for their evening news features about upcoming
  • How the ‘postcode lottery’ of parenting really impacts young children
    Professor Emily Jones is quoted in the BBC News indepth article on the “postcode lottery” of parenting. Read full story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdr42ez3d2o
  • Babylab & Toddlerlab researchers feature on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Child’ podcast
    Three of our CBCD staff were interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s ‘Child’ podcast with India Rakusen (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001v4dd). The new series features
  • Unleashing the Toddlers: Lessons from the new Birkbeck ToddlerLab
    Professor Denis Mareschal recently gave a webinar for Learnus, a charity specialising in bringing research innovations in neuroscience to educators. He discusses
  • The Babylab features in Channel 5’s “Are you Autistic” documentary!
    Watch Channel 5 to see a family visiting the Babylab and findings from the STAARS study! Professor Emily Jones discusses studying
  • ToddlerLab research published!
    Our first paper on brain activity in mothers and their children in the Toddlerlab has just been published! We found when
  • “5-Minute” interview about virtual reality research with young children
    Check out Dr Chiara Bulgarelli’s “5-Minute” podcast interview, where she explains how and why we use virtual reality to study the

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