I was fortunate enough to have just spent the last four weeks working with Professor Elaine Reese at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, all thanks to a LuCiD travel grant. One of the…
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I have just completed a LuCiD summer internship at the Lancaster University Babylab, supervised by Dr Katie Twomey, Dr Katie Alcock, and Dr Rebecca Frost. During my 6-week summer internship, I took…
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Before they begin to talk, infants use gestures, such as pointing and holding out objects, to display their wants and interests to others. However, it is often difficult to determine exactly why…
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Through the Nuffield Foundation, we have had the fantastic opportunity to carry out a 4 week psychology research placement at the University of Manchester, LuCiD Child Study Centre at the . During our
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Summer time is conference time! In July, I travelled to beautiful Tartu, Estonia, to the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC14). Together with Virve Vihman I organised a theme session…
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As one of the lucky recipients of the LuCiD Travel Award, I was able to spend time at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI), working as part of Mike Tomasello’s Child