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 behavioural and functional brain imaging data. Brain Sciences, 12(6), 735.
Terry, R., Pinti, P. & Mareschal, D. The Use of fNIRS Hyperscanning to Investigate Collaboration in Mother-Toddler Dyads. Talk presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, September 2025.
Terry, R., Pinti, P. & Mareschal, D. The Effect of Other Adults on Mother-Toddler Neural Synchrony during Collaboration. Poster presented at the fNIRS UK Conference, September 2025.
Terry, R., Pinti, P., & Mareschal, D. Markers of Neural Synchrony between Mothers and Toddlers during Collaboration. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental 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.