![]() ![]() Anna's Talk (Apologies to those who joined irl for the abrupt ending - we were so enthralled with Anna's research we ran out of time!) Read more about the BONDS study Anna investigates polygenic scores and infant brain activity in response to social stimuli to predict developmental outcomes. Anna Guistudies how the infant brain learns to pay special attention to social stimuli such as faces and voices and whether genetic factors interfere with this developmental process. Giulia's Talk Her online study will be available soon! Giulia's project challenges this idea and aims to investigate whether distraction in toddlerhood can be re-conceptualised as an attentional trait, whose extremes – either an over response to sensory stimulation or an inability to detect and orient attention towards salient and informative stimuli – are equally detrimental for adaptation and learning. In everyday life, distraction has become synonymous with poor attentional abilities or reflective of chaotic home environments. Giulia Serino presented her project investigating the role of distraction during development. This study looked at what infants' brain activity during a screen-based task in the lab can tell us about infants' distractibility, both during the task and in their everyday life, as reported by parents in questionnaires. She presents the results of one study with 10-month-old infants. Cécile Gal is interested in how infants actively shape their own learning experience: they don't just passively absorb the information around them but engage with what interests them most and then disengage once they've learned from it. She presents research findings from a sample of preschool aged children with an autism diagnosis and infants who have an elevated likelihood for autism. She discusses how we measure physiology, what it can tell us, and why we are interested in physiology in relation to autism. Louisa's Talk Louisa on CBBC Operation Ouch kid's TV! (10min 25sec in) Email Louisa to take part in her infancy sleep or dream research - CBCD collaborator and King's College London postdoc Tessel Bazelmansstudies the role physiology, specifically heart rate, plays during the early development of autism. She shows methods we can use to look at the brain during sleep and introduces her new study into dreaming in development. Having recently completed her PhD, Dr Louisa Goss é joined us to discuss her cutting edge research into infancy and sleep. Have you ever wondered what happens in your baby's brain when they are smiling in their sleep? Are they replaying experiences they had during the day? Or are they dreaming? In this coffee talk Louisa explains her ongoing research into studying the sleeping infant brain and what we can learn about development by looking at a baby's brain during sleep. They show findings that indicate good consistency in brain measures across time points and how that has helped with measuring development in other parts of the world. Rianne and Ellie present results from the UK where they collected brain activity (EEG) and eye-tracking information from 2.5 - 4 year olds at two different timepoints, to help assess how consistent and reliable measures were. ![]() Dr Rianne Haartsen and Ellie Braithwaite discuss the global Braintools project! Braintools aims to develop a toolkit for measuring development in locations all over the world. The goal is to create a toolkit optimised for babies and children in low-income settings such as in India and The Gambia. How does the mind guide action control in such routines? And how does this change throughout the school years? Aude shares insights gained from an ice-cream making computer game in which more than 70 children took part. During their school years children must consistently perform the same daily routines (having breakfast, preparing their school backpack, etc.) while sometimes facing a changing environment or distractions. Final year PhD student Aude Carteron discusses results from her online study on routine action control in school-aged children and adults. All our past speakers are listed below and recordings are available (just click the links). ![]()
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