We know that failure to develop adequate language skills during the early years can have a profound impact on children’s lives. For example, children who have poor language skills at age five tend to…
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In the English language, speakers often alternate between sentences like (1) and (2) when producing complex sentences¹. 1. [Tom thinks] that (the cake shop is closed today).[Main clause] +…
Over the summer I spent six weeks on a LuCiD summer internship supervised by Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Alissa Ferry, assisting with research into children’s acquisition of categories at the basic and…
As another lucky LuCiD travel award recipient, I have had the opportunity to visit two collaborating labs in the UK. In just two short weeks I gained invaluable knowledge in one of the most…
I have recently spent 4 weeks in the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Brain Sciences in Leipzig, working alongside the research team of Prof Stefanie Hoehl‘s Early Social Cognition Lab (ESCo),…
This summer, I spent six weeks working as a LuCiD intern supervised by Heather Lemen, Kimberley Bell, and Katy Finch – all of whom are PhD students at the University of Manchester. Throughout my…