New publication on emotion-driven attention in face-to-face interactions:
Pasqualette, L., & Kulke, L. (2023). Effects of emotional content on social inhibition of gaze in live social and non-social situations. Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-023-41154-w. (Registered Report).
Pasqualette, L., & Kulke, L. (2023). Effects of emotional content on social inhibition of gaze in live social and non-social situations. Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-023-41154-w. (Registered Report).
What research topic are you really passionate about? If it's related to attention, emotion, social situations, developmental psychology or neuroscience, here's your opportunity to work on it! We're hiring a postdoc at Bremen University: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-vacancies-1/job/2109?cHash=356b33c5f6607c46743933cfd9ab8189
There will be lots of methodological opportunities (EEG, eye-tracking, VR, hyperscanning) in a friendly, international, Open Science oriented team.
There will be lots of methodological opportunities (EEG, eye-tracking, VR, hyperscanning) in a friendly, international, Open Science oriented team.
I am happy to announce that I have accepted a full professorship in Developmental Psychology at Bremen University starting April 2023. I look forward to starting my research there with a friendly open-science oriented team and exciting methodological tools including EEG, eye-tracking, co-registration, hyperscanning and developmental and clinical samples.
Happy Holidays! The Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology Lab got into the Christmas mood during our virtual Christmas party.
Emotion effects under natural condition: Our new publication shows that emotional content only affects natural eye-movements but not instructed eye-movements: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699931.2021.2009446
TV Talk on Attention: A talk by Louisa Kulke on the development of attention can now be seen on television or online at: www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/campus/augen-entwicklung-der-aufmerksamkeit-psychologie-kulke-talks-100.html
Opportunity for participation in study: How does you baby see the world? We are currently recruiting infants between 3 and 6 months to take part in our study on social attention. You can register your interest here to receive further information: /neurodevpsychology.phil.fau.de/studienteilnahme/
Conference presentations: You are warmly invited to join my presentations at the International Congress of Psychology (2020plus) this week:
- Presentation 1: “If you’re happy, do I know it?” – will summarize neural mechanisms of attention to emotions (July 20, 2021, 3 p.m. CET)
- Presentation 2 will be about our recent findings on Theory of Mind in real life situations and is part of an interesting symposium on Theory of Mind (July 21, 2021, 9:30 p.m. CET)
Emotion effects are similar when we move our eyes during attention shifts as when we don't. However, many neural responses are enhanced when we move our eyes. Paper now openly accessible in Psychophysiology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13838
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Lab Social at the "Biergarten": After being founded during the Covid-19 pandemic, my lab was finally able to meet up and talk about our research in person rather than via Zoom - it was great to see everybody face-to-face!
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Conference presentation: I will be presenting our recent findings on natural eye-movements to emotional faces at the "Psychology and Brain" conference on June 3rd 2021
An interview with FAU president Prof. Hornegger and Prof. Kulke has been published online. Find out more: youtu.be/oWAPIKxVVtM
Conference presentation: If you are interested in the effects of distractors on eye-movements and brain mechanisms of emotion processing, you are warmly invited to attend my talk at the TeaP conference on the 15th of March 2021 at 14.45.
Eye-movements during social situations: Our study on implicit Theory of Mind in live situations has been published in Scientific reports. Eye-movements, measured with mobile eye-tracking were comparable in live face-to-face interactions as in previous studies in which participants were watching video stimuli. More: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80614-5
Conference presentation: My presentation on "Development and relation of predictive context processing and Theory of Mind" will take place on 05.01.21 at 20.00 and on 06.01.21 at 08.00 at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. More info: https://bcccd21.sched.com/event/gDxS/a-0022-kulke-l-development-and-relation-of-predictive-context-processing-and-theory-of-mind
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What happens in the brain during Christmas shopping? Find out more in an interview with Louisa Kulke.
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New preprint published: Are we less social in noisy environments? No effect of noise on implicit Theory of Mind performance https://psyarxiv.com/jmkfh
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December 2020: I am delighted to introduce my team at the Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology lab! More about the team.
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New topics for student projects: I am currently accepting applications for student B.Sc. and M.Sc. project. Find out more.
Job offer: Join my team as a PhD student to work on the DFG project “Overt and covert attention to emotional faces in realistic social situations”. The project investigates attention to emotional stimuli in social and non-social situations, using combinations of EEG and eye-tracking as well as mobile eye-tracking in realistic situations.
For more information and application details, please see: https://neurodevpsychology.phil.fau.de/files/2020/08/phd-position-offer.pdf
For more information and application details, please see: https://neurodevpsychology.phil.fau.de/files/2020/08/phd-position-offer.pdf
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August 2020: I am delighted to announce that I have started a junior professorship in Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and very much look forward to my work here. If you are interested in joining my lab, get in touch!
More information on my lab at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg: https://neurodevpsychology.phil.fau.de |
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Flash talk: I am delighted that I was selected to give a talk at the online poster flash of the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) on Friday, 12th of June 2020 at 4pm. You are cordially invited to join using this link: https://t.co/i9e385yPLF?amp=1
Overt attention shifts: I am very happy to announce that our paper on relations between saccade and ERP latency with Prof. Janette Atkinson (UCL & Oxford University) and Prof. Oliver Braddick (Oxford University) has now been published in Perception: "Relation Between Event-Related Potential Latency and Saccade Latency in Overt Shifts of Attention"
Emotion recognition software can lead to similar results as EMG in regards to recognizing happy, angry and neutral expressions. Find out more in our new paper "A comparison of the Affectiva iMotions Facial Expression Analysis Software with EMG for identifying facial expressions of emotion".
Our paper on "Predictive context biases binocular rivalry in children and adults with no positive relation to two measures of social cognition" has just been published in Nature Scientific Reports (https://rdcu.be/b1hOD). We are very happy to share these results of a collaboration with Christian Valuch, funded by the Leibniz Science Campus Primate Cognition.
Paper online: Recent findings on "Neural Mechanisms of Overt Attention Shifts to Emotional Faces" were just published in Neuroscience. You can download the paper for free at this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZhWG15hTth1-T
July 2019: At the Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) in Amsterdam you will have the opportunity to see my talk on modeling neural mechanisms of associative learning or to stop by my poster.
June 2019: I will be presenting our recent findings at the Psychology and Brain conference (PuG) in Dresden. You are cordially invited to my talk on "Neural mechanisms of overt attention shifts to emotional faces" (Saturday, 22nd of June, 12:15, R. S5)
Science trends featured an article about our recent Neuropsychologia paper! Read more about word associations here: sciencetrends.com/associating-words-with-an-emotional-meaning/
Paper online: Our recent paper on "Why can some implicit Theory of Mind tasks be replicated and others cannot? A test of mentalizing versus submentalizing accounts" just got published in PLOS ONE. Find out more: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213772
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Postdoc events in Göttingen: As the postdoc representative committee in Göttingen, we have been organising events across Göttingen. Feel free to stop by if you're a postdoc or interested in postdoc life:
- 28. February 2019: Postdoc Social - 4. April 2019: Postdoc Fair |
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How words get associated with emotions: The Kölncampus radio interviewed me on our new paper on neural mechanisms of word association. You can find more info here: www.koelncampus.com/sendung/fruehrausch/archiv/9022-haben-woerter-eigentlich-gefuehle/
Paper online: Our study on learning associations with words and pseudowords was just published in Neuropsychologia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393218307802
You can download the preprint here.
You can download the preprint here.
Our study testing the effect of narration on implicit Theory of Mind just got published! Whether or not verbal narration was used only had a negligible effect on anticipatory looking behaviour of children: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2018.1544140?scroll=top&needAccess=true
A constructive discussion is going on regarding implicit Theory of Mind. You can find our new comment on the comment by Baillargeon, Buttelmann & Southgate online. Open Access Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201418301813?dgcid=coauthor
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Happy Halloween! Although the results of Bayesian Statistics can be scary if they don't provide evidence for either hypothesis (BF = 1), the analysis itself has become very user-friendly, e.g. thanks to the amazing 'BayesFactor' package for R by Richard D. Morey et al. or the free JASP Software. Time to carve geeky pumpkins!
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Money or smiles: Happy facial expressions and monetary reward association show independent effects on early brain responses. Check out our new paper for more info: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206142
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A look inside our EEG Lab: The television show "Scobel" just visited our lab to film a section for the recent episode on "Decision making". You can watch it here: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=76614
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Announcement: The SUB will screen the Open Science movie „Paywall – The Business of Scholarship“ at the Historical Building of Göttingen State and University Library on Wednesday, 24th October 2018 at 5pm, followed by a panel discussion with Sven Bradler, Louisa Kulke, James Daniel, Birgit Schmidt and Margo Bargheer
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October 2018: I just joined the Göttingen Campus post-doc representative committee and look forward to working with the lovely team. If you have any suggestions how we can improve your postdoctoral life in Göttingen, let us know!
In case you missed our DGPs poster about the Göttingen Open Source and Science Initiative, you can now download it here: https://t.co/KYlzmhhebR
I am very grateful that I was selected as the winner of the DGPs PsychoSlam. I very much enjoyed the event!
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September 2018: Looking forward to the DGPs conference in Frankfurt! If you want to hear more about my research, please stop by my presentations:
- Monday, 17.09., 18.30: Psycho-Slam talk, Festsaal 2, Casino
- Wednesday, 19.09., 9.00: Talk on "Looking at emotional faces: Neural and saccadic mechanisms of attention to salience and emotional content", SH 0.105
- Wednesday, 19.09., 10.15: Talk on "Ein Test impliziter Theory of Mind mit realistischeren Stimuli", SH 0.107
- Wednesday, 19.09., 14.45-15.30: Poster presentation on "Zwei Jahre Göttinger Open Source und Science Initiative der Psychologie – ein Erfahrungsbericht", poster O2.605, Anbau Casino, Saal Ost
A big thanks to the organisers of #ESCAN2018 for us the Buzz Award! We had a great time brainstorming research ideas :)
ESCAN 2018 in Leiden showed great initiative in promoting Open Science! You can now download the slides of my talk on "Early neural mechanisms of overt attention" here: https://osf.io/6s9rq/
July 2018: A big thanks to The Center for Open Science for selecting me as a winner of the Preregistration Challenge. I hope that many other researchers will start preregistering their studies. You can find more info here: https:/cos.io/
Our paper showing that "Implicit reward associations impact face processing: Time-resolved evidence from event-related brain potentials and pupil dilations" just got published in NeuroImage! You can download a free copy here: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1XKew3lc~r3FbR
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The Göttingen Open Source & Science Initiative completed the "Altstadtlauf" race once again to raise awareness for Open Science - Thanks to all who took part in the run!
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We are happy to announce that our replication study of implicit Theory of Mind tasks just got published in Psychological Science: Kulke, L., von Duhn, B., Schneider, D., & Rakoczy, H. Is Implicit Theory of Mind a Real and Robust Phenomenon? Results From a Systematic Replication Study. Psychological Science, doi: 10.1177/0956797617747090
Different paradigms are used to investigate attention in infancy, but does this really make a difference? Find out in my recent paper in Vision: Kulke, L. (2017). The effect of stimulus size and eccentricity on attention shift latencies. Vision, 1(4), 25.
Our Overview of implicit Theory of Mind replications and non-replications has just been published in Data in Brief. Find out more about replication studies that landed in file drawers: Kulke L., & Rakoczy, H. (2017). Implicit Theory of Mind - an overview of current replications and non-replications. Data in Brief.
Transparent Science for everybody! To inform about Open Science, the Göttingen Open Source and Science Initiative of Psychology was invited to the "In publica commoda" conference at Göttingen University. Thank you for the interesting talks and discussions!
Our new paper on implicit Theory of Mind replications across the life span has just been published in Cognitive Development: Kulke L., Reiß, M., Krist, H., Rakoczy, H. (in press). How robust are anticipatory looking measures of Theory of Mind? Replication attempts across the life span. Cognitive Development.
Social Media update: I have finally joined Twitter. To receive regular updates, follow me @Lou_Kulke
July 2017: Registration has opened for the WoCaNet conference for women in science that I am co-organising. Find out more at: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/203891.html - be the change!
We share all our data - even if it is boring! Members of the Göttingen Open Source and Science Initiative just finished the "Altstadtlauf" run to raise awareness for Open Science. You can find boring data on our finishing times here: https://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/gossip/open-science-lauf
Thanks to the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition for supporting our efforts and mentioning us in their news!
Thanks to the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition for supporting our efforts and mentioning us in their news!
June 2017: I just joined the team of ambassadors of the Open Science Framework to promote transparent research practices.
Job announcement (June 2017): We are currently recruiting student research assistants for a project looking at perception and Theory of Mind using Virtual-Reality-Goggles. If you are interested in joining our research group, get in touch
April 2017: I am happy to announce that I have taken on a position as a researcher (Habilitationsstelle) at the department of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology at Göttingen University, where I will be working with EEG, eye-tracking, behavioural and physiological measures to entangle the neural mechanisms of emotion and cognition.
Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (April 2017): We just finished our poster presentation on "Implicit theory of mind over the lifespan: How robust and convergent are different anticipatory looking measures?." in Austin, Texas, US. For an electronic reprint of the poster, get in touch. If you are interested in further research on this topic, we have another symposium scheduled for Saturday at SRCD - make sure to stop by!
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International Convention of Psychological Science (March 2017): Thank you for the interesting discussions at my poster on "Implicit Theory of Mind – replicability and validity of anticipatory looking studies" in Vienna, Austria. Please get in touch if you are interested in a copy of the poster.
Overview of implicit Theory of Mind studies (March 2017): We have just finished our overview of (non-)replications of implicit Theory of Mind tasks from labs all over the world. If you are interested in a copy of the overview, get in touch.
Need any advice on doing a PhD? We just published a book on postgraduate studies in the UK with my chapter on dealing with unforeseen crises. In case you are interested in postgraduate studies in the UK, you can check it out here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Postgraduate-Study-UK-Surviving-Succeeding/dp/1911450034
Publication online: Our paper on "Neural mechanisms of attention become more specialised during infancy: Insights from combined eye tracking and EEG" has just been published in Developmental Psychobiology. Click here to read more: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dev.21494/full
Can you read my mind? In case you are interested in learning about the very basics of "Theory of Mind", my talk from the 2016 "Scientific Café" is now available to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clf5TXNyzAI
Publication online: Our new paper on "Neural Differences between Covert and Overt Attention Studied using EEG with Simultaneous Remote Eye Tracking" has just been published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. You can download a copy here: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00592/full. If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch.
Winter term 2016/17: We are happy to announce our new talk series for young scientists at Göttingen University, "Mittelbautreffen". The first Meeting takes places on November 15 with a talk on "Open Science". For further information please see: https://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/de/service/mitarbeiterportal/mittelbau.
October 2016: We are proud to announce that our team finished the Brunswick Half Marathon! Thank you for your support!
October 2016: To support open science and work on solutions for the replication crisis facing Psychology, I have joined the Goettinger Open Source and Science Committee. If you are looking for information on open science or preregistrations, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Preregistrations online: With the replication crisis facing Psychology, transparency of scientific work becomes increasingly important. To openly display our research methods, we preregistered two studies with the Open Science Framework. You can access our research plans under the following links:
Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (pre-registered). How social is implicit Theory of Mind? Investigating location effects with a true belief control condition. https://osf.io/d47zk/
Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (pre-registered). Implicit Theory of Mind – myth or mindreading mechanism. https://osf.io/dxb5n/
Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (pre-registered). How social is implicit Theory of Mind? Investigating location effects with a true belief control condition. https://osf.io/d47zk/
Kulke, L., Rakoczy, H. (pre-registered). Implicit Theory of Mind – myth or mindreading mechanism. https://osf.io/dxb5n/
International Conference on Infant Studies 2016: Thank you for attending my talk on "Infant brains become more efficient: Neural mechanisms of visual attention in the first year of life" at the conference in May. If you have any questions or comments or would like a copy of my slides, please get in touch.
What does a baby lab look like? If you want to take a quick tour through our Babylab at University College London, you can now find a short video tour through Chandler House on the UCL website. Click here to watch.
January 2016: Thank you for interesting discussions during my presentation on "Can we measure anything non-verbally? A critical discussion of combined eye tracking and EEG" at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. You can download my poster from the conference website or contact me for further information.
December 2015: Publication online! You can now access our paper on eye-tracking in infancy and the full dataset online: Kulke L, Atkinson J, Braddick O (2015) Automatic Detection of Attention Shifts in Infancy: Eye Tracking in the Fixation Shift Paradigm. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0142505. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142505
October 2015: I am excited to start my postdoctoral research position at Georg-August University Göttingen, looking at socio-cognitive development in infants, young children and adults.
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September 2015: After 3 years of research on brain mechanisms of attention development in infants and adults, University College London awarded me a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience. I would like to thank my supervisors, colleagues, friends and family for their support. Contact me to read my thesis on "Cortical mechanisms of visual attention in typically developing infants and adults"
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Publication online: You can now read our publication on "Letting go: How the disappearance of a fixation target prompts the brain to shift attention." online [read abstract]
Conference talk: On Monday, the 24th of August at 17.15, I will be presenting my data on "Differential brain activity in overt and covert attention shifts:
Evidence from co-registered eye-tracking and EEG" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). Stop by the session at the University of Liverpool, UK, or request your copy of my slides here.
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy: In July 2015 I was awarded the title "Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy" (AFHEA) for professional university teaching
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July 2015: Together with two colleagues from UCL we completed the 10k "Race for Life" to raise funding for Cancer Research UK. Great thanks to all of you who supported our fundraising to beat cancer sooner!
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Vision Sciences Society Meeting: Thanks to all of you who came to my talk on "Letting go: How the disappearance of a
fixation target prompts the brain to shift attention" at the VSS conference in St Pete Beach, Florida. To receive a copy of my slides or to discuss my findings, get in touch.
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February - April 2015 Project announcement: I will be offering mini projects on the topic "Does size matter? Attracting attention with visual stimuli" for UCL Psychology undergraduate students. The projects involve eye-tracking to measure shifts of attention towards different stimuli. If you are interested, please email me your CV and a brief motivational statement
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In July - August 2014 I had the opportunity to conduct research at the University of California, San Diego, supported by a Bogue Fellowship. You can now find a short report of my project in the US under: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/bogue/tabs/kulke
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Thank you for supporting my fundraising for the charity "Action on hearing loss". On the 31st of October I climbed all 842 steps of the BT tower in London to support the charity. The fundraising was successful and will help people who are experiencing hearing loss lead a better life.
Further information and pictures under: Volunteering & Charity Work
Image from: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/bttower.aspx
Further information and pictures under: Volunteering & Charity Work
Image from: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/bttower.aspx
01.10.2014: My German translations of diverse children's books are now available on the market. Translations include "Sticker Dolly Dressing: Fancy Dress", "Bridesmaids" and "Ice Skaters" (click here to look at one of the books).
In honour of Dr John Wattam-Bell: To honour my late PhD supervisor Dr John Wattam-Bell, I presented our work on the development of neural mechanisms of spatial attention in the symposium on "Motion Processing in Typical and Atypical Development: symposium in memory of John Wattam-Bell" at the European Conference on Visual Perception in Belgrade, Serbia. John was a great supervisor and he will be deeply missed.
Thank you for the interest in my poster on "Attention Development and Learning: Insights from Eye-tracking Measures of Infant's Fixation Shifts" at the International Conference on Infant Studies 2014 in Berlin, Germany! If you would like to receive a copy of the poster, ask questions or discuss our findings, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Talk announcement: I will provide an overview of the neural correlates of attention that we found in infants and adults at the AVA meeting in York on the 11th of April 2014. Click here to see the programme or to sign up for the meeting.
Conference talk announcement: I will be presenting my data on "Attention Development and Learning: Recent
Insights From Eye-tracking and EEG" at the TeaP conference in Gießen, Germany on the 1st of April 2014. Contact me to receive a copy of my slides or to discuss the reserach.
Save a Baby's Life: Our volunteers now also offer courses in Infant First Aid for conference attendees. If you are interested in learning Infant First Aid, contact us, the Save a Baby's Life committee.
06.12.2013 - 13.12.2013: Currently you can find pictures of my research displayed at the "Research Images as Art" exhibition at University College London.
24.9.2013: Recruitment of new volunteers for the "Save a Baby's Life" society is now open for this term. If you are interested in learning infant First Aid and passing your skills on to the community by teaching parents of newborn babies, contact us (the "Save a Baby's Life" committee) for more information.
23.9.2013: A warm welcome to all new postgraduates at UCL's Division of Psychology and language Science! I hope to see you all at our Post-Graduate Peer-Group Welcome event next week.
4.9. - 6.9.2013: If you are interested in eye-tracking research in infancy, contact me for a reprint of the poster "Measuring the development of visual attention in infancy: More exact timing due to eye-tracking", that I presented at the conference for the cognitive and developmental section of the British Psychological Society in Reading (UK).
25.8. - 29.8.2013: The presentation of my current EEG data at the European Conference of Visual Perception (ECVP) in Bremen, Germany led to interesting discussions and feedback. Request your reprint of the poster "Combining event-related potentials and eye-tracking to assess the effect of attention on cortical responses" here.
