Ellie Smith is a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at Lancaster University. Ellie’s current research focuses on the influence parental personality has on early sensory processing development; specifically focusing on schizotypy, mind-mindedness, emotional expression perception and auditory sensory gating.
In May 2016 I attended the 20th Biennial meeting of the International Congress on Infant Studies in New Orleans alongside 22 of my peers from the Lancaster University BabyLab. For me, as a young…