I have just finished a six week, LuCiD summer internship at The University of Manchester. The project looked at category typicality and its role in how children with and without ASD store semantic…
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This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with Dr Elizabeth Wonnacott at the world-renowned Language Learning Lab at UCL, via a LuCiD travel award.
For 6 weeks in the summer, I worked as a LuCiD Intern at the University of Manchester’s Child Study Centre. I was supervised by Prof Anna Theakston and contributed towards the ongoing project…
This summer (July-August 2019), I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three weeks at the Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory, Indiana University, working with Prof. Chen Yu. This was…
Every year, governments, charities and local authorities spend millions of pounds on training, or exhorting, teachers and parents to talk to children. Even President Obama has got in on the act.
One of the most important milestones for babies is the ability to engage in joint attention – the shared focus of two individuals on an object. However, it is unclear how babies develop this skill. An…