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James Ives

Postdoctoral Researcher

Address:

Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
Henry Wellcome Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX

Email: james.white1@bbk.ac.uk

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jamesernestives

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Ives-3

 

Research Interests:

My research interests are on infant cognitive development and trajectories of neurotypical and non-neurotypical neural development. I’ve recently worked on work investigating infant neural entrainment to a range of stimuli, speech-brain tracking and entrainment disruption across the first two years of life. I’ve recently started working on neural entrainment research in clinically at-risk populations. I’m passionate about expanding the scope of psychological and neuroscientific research with new tools through new hardware to provide new and exciting data streams and machine learning techniques to provide researchers with automated pipelines to novel data. I enjoy coding in Matlab and Python to help produce these pipelines.

 

Education and Professional Experience:

  • 2023-present – Postdoctoral Researcher on EU-AIMS reporting to Prof. Emily Jones at the Centre of Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
  • 2020-2023 - PhD Researcher – Supervisors Prof Sam Wass, Prof Victoria Leong – ONACSA project
  • 2015-2020 – Editor/Editor-in-Chief news-medical.net - About - Audience
  • 2009-2014 – MPsych (Hons) Advanced Psychology: Cognitive and Brain Science Pathway, University of Plymouth. Supervisor Prof Jeremy Goslin.

 

Publications:

  • Ives, J., Labendzki, P., Perapoch Amadó, M., Greenwood, E., Viswanathan, N., Northrop, T., & Wass, S. (preprint). At which low amplitude modulated frequency do infants best entrain? A frequency tagging study. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.08.519576v1
  • Perapoch Amadó, M., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., Labendzki, P., Marriott Haresign, I., Northrop T. J., Phillips E., Viswanathan, N. K., Whitehorn, M., Jones, E. J. H., Wass, S. V. (submitted). Naturalistic attention transitions from subcortical to cortical control during infancy.
  • Wass, S. V., Perapoch Amadó, M., & Ives, J. (2022). Oscillatory entrainment to our early social or physical environment and the emergence of volitional control. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101102

 

Conference posters/presentations:

  • Greenwood, E., Labendzki, P., Perapoch Amadó, M., Ives, J., Viswanathan, N., Northrop, T., Wass, S. (2022). How are patterns of parental vocalisations associated with infant quieting after peak arousal events? Exploring optimal patterns of maternal responsivity to infant dysregulation. (Poster). Sapiens. University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. https://www.sapiensconference.org/
  • Ives, J., Labendzki, P., Perapoch Amadó, M., Greenwood, E., Viswanathan, N., Northrop, T., Wass, S. (2022). Measuring infant entrainment preferences to low frequency amplitude modulated stimuli. (Poster). 1st CBCD Workshop on Naturalistic Experimentation of Child Development (NECD). Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. https://www.cbcd-necd.co.uk/
  • Labendzki, P., Greenwood, E., Esposito, G., Ives, J., Northrop, T., Perapoch Amadó, M., Goupil, L., Wass, S. (2023). Form-function relationship in the amplitude and frequency modulations of infant-directed speech: A predictive processing perspective. (Poster). Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/
  • Northrop, T. Labendzki, P., Sutton, I., Viswanathan, N., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., Perapoch Amadó, M., Tolmie, A., Wass, S. (2022). The role of increasing predictability in the development of hierarchical event structuring. (Poster). Sapiens. University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. https://www.sapiensconference.org/
  • Perapoch Amadó, M., Marriott Haresign, I., Ives, J., Greenwood, E., Viswanathan, N., Labendzki, P., Northrop, T., Phillips, E., Whitehorn, M., Jones, E., & Wass, S. (2022). How are Infant's Attentional Behaviours During Free Play Substantiated in Their Brains? (Poster). The International Congress of Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada. https://infantstudies.org/
  • Viswanathan, N. K., Labendzki, P., Perapoch Amadó, M., Ives, J., Greenwood, E., Northrop, T., De Klerk, C., Goupil, L., Wass, S. V. (2022a). Assessing The Efficacy of Open-Source Solutions to Automated Facial Coding: A Methods-Comparison Study With EMG. (Poster). Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction. Royal Society, London, UK. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/04/social- interaction/
  • Viswanathan, N. K., Labendzki, P., Perapoch Amadó, M., Ives, J., Greenwood, E., Northrop, T., De Klerk, C., Goupil, L., & Wass., S. V. (2022b). The Sub-second Dynamics of Spontaneous Mimicry: An Electromyography Study Tracking Infant Caregiver Dyads During Free Play. (Poster). The International Congress of Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada. https://infantstudies.org/
  • Wass, S. V., Perapoch Amadó, M., & Ives, J. (2022). Interpersonal Entrainment of Behaviour, Physiology and Neural Activity During Face-To-Face Infant-Caregiver Interaction: Can We Tell Contingent Responsiveness from Oscillatory Entrainment? (Poster). Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction. Royal Society, London, UK. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and- lectures/2022/04/social-interaction/