Rebecca Terry

PhD Student

 

Email: rterry01@student.bbk.ac.uk

 

Supervisors:

Prof Denis Mareschal

Dr Paola Pinti

 

Research Interests

My PhD project is investigating the development of collaborative problem solving in toddlers. I am interested in how children learn to work with other people, from parents and siblings to other children, and what collaboration looks like at this age. To investigate this I am primarily using fNIRS hyperscanning to measure neural synchrony between toddlers and their partners during collaboration.

 

Education

PhD Psychology | Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck (2023 - Present)

MSci Natural Sciences specialising in Neuroscience (First-class honours with Distinction) | University of York (2017 -2021)

 

Publications and Poster Presentations

Göbel, S. M., Terry, R., Klein, E., Hymers, M., & Kaufmann, L. (2022). Impaired arithmetic fact retrieval in an adult with developmental dyscalculia: evidence from behavioral and functional brain imaging data. Brain Sciences, 12(6), 735.

Terry, R., Pinti, P. & Mareschal, D.. Markers of Neural Synchrony between Mothers and Toddlers during Collaboration. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, September 2024.

 

Awards and Funding

Leverhulme Trust funded PhD studentship. (2023-2026): Full scholarship (fees + stipend) for PhD research funded by the Leverhulme Trust UK

School of Natural Sciences, University of York. Award for the highest achieving MSci project in 2021.