PhD Student Supervisors Prof. Emily Jones Prof. Jacqueline Barnes (Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck) Research Interests My research is focussed on developing and improving methods for measuring cognitive ability during toddlerhood, which can then be
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research Interests My primary research interest is looking at motor control and learning in typically developing individuals and individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD). I am also interested in how functional brain networks
PhD Student Supervisors Prof. Denis Mareschal Prof. Richard Cooper Research Interests I am interested in the interplay between the developing mind, the body and the environment from early childhood to adulthood. My PhD work aims to explore how information-seeking and curiosity motivate goal-directed action, especially in comparison to explicit
PhD Student Supervisors Primary: Dr. Iroise Dumontheil (Birkbeck, University of London) Secondary: Prof. Michael Thomas (Birkbeck, University of London) Research Interests My research focus is the development of of executive functions in early adolescence. I am currently working with the
Research Fellow Research Interests My research interests are centered on functional aspects of human physiology and include development of technology, data collection and analysis. At the start of my research career, I worked with models the cardiovascular system and the
PhD Student Supervisors Dr Tim Smith (Birkbeck, Department of Psychological Sciences) Prof Fred Dick (Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuro Imaging) Research Interests My research investigates the influence of sound on when and where we move our eyes. I am particularly interested
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Genes Environment Lifespan (GEL) lab Supervisors Dr Angelica Ronald Dr Emma Meaburn Research Interests I started my PhD studentship in the Genes Environment Lifespan Lab in October 2016. My research focusses on environmental risk factors involved in psychotic
PhD Student Research interests My main research topic is infant-object interaction. I am currently investigating the relationship between the function of an object and its affordance for action in infancy (both behaviorally as well as with the Tobii eye-tracking system).
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, London Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, London PhD Students Anna Sniecinska: Endocrine secretion and sleep patterns in Williams syndrome Jo Van Herwegen: Figurative Language in Williams Syndrome Lim Al Kewo: A Longitudinal
Postdoctoral Researcher Research interests My current work is primarily concerned with object categorization in infants, i.e. how babies first learn to group objects according to (perceptual) similarity. Specifically, I’m interested in how language input (e.g. object labelling) can influence category
