DNL Laboratory Meetings

 

Spring 2012

• Tuesday 10 January: Welcome Back meeting

• Tuesday 17 January: Research methods discussion paper: Bem, D. J. (2011). Feeling the Future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 407-425.

• Tuesday 24 January: Dr. Anna Fedor: Modelling atypical vocabulary development and interventions to alleviate word-finding difficulties.

• Tuesday 31 January: Maitrei Kohli: Combining artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms in a population modelling framework

• Tuesday 7 February: Dr. Nick Lange: Temporal aspects of hypothesis generation

• Tuesday 14 February: Seminar: Dr. Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (Institute of Education): Adaptive learning technologies and cognition

• Tuesday 21 February: Dean D'Souza: An event-related potential investigation into speech processing in toddlers with Williams syndrome

• Tuesday 28 February: Seminar: Dr. Paul Chadderton (Imperial College): In vivo, multi-cellular recording from rat auditory cortex.

• Tuesday 6 March: [Note: 11.30am - 12.30pm] Fred: Behavioural regression may reveal the atypical neural mechanisms causing the autistic phenotype.

• Tuesday 13 March: Dr. Michael Dash: Epistemology of early development

• Tuesday 20 March: Hannah Broadbent: Williams syndrome, space and navigation

• Tuesday 27 March: Seminar: Dr. Gary Morgan (City University, London): title to be confirmed

• Tuesday 3 April: Seminar: Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education): title to be confirmed

 

Autumn 2011

• Tuesday 25 October: Welcome to new lab members and an overview of research in the DNL

• Tuesday 8 November: Vicky Knowland and Themis Karaminis: Findings from thesis projects

• Tuesday 13 December: Seminar: Dr. Sam Wass: Attentional training in infants

 

Summer 2011

• Tuesday 17 May: Seminar: Prof. Yonata Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Longitudinal studies of early language development in Williams syndrome and Down syndrome

 

Spring 2011

• Tuesday 11 January: Welcome Back meeting

• Tuesday 18 January: Seminar: Dr. Torsten Baldeweg (ICH): Growing up with brain injury: Structural constraints and functional plasticity

• Tuesday 25 January: Seminar: Dr. Chloe Marshall (City): Specific Language Impairment in deaf signing children

• Tuesday 1 February: No meeting

• Tuesday 8 February: Seminar: Dr. Odette Megnin (Cambridge): Behavioural and event-related potential studies of audiovisual integration in autistic spectrum disorder

• Tuesday 15 February: Dr. Anna Fedor: Neurocomputational models of vocabulary development

• Tuesday 22 February: Dr. Roberto Filippi: Behavioural and brain basis of cognitive control in bilinguals

• Tuesday 1 March: No meeting

• Tuesday 7 March: Seminar: Dr. Melle van der Molen (University of Amsterdam): Pre-attentive auditory discrimination in fragile X syndrome: a mismatch negativity study

• Tuesday 15 March: Seminar: Dr. Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway): EyeSay! Investigating language production processes in typical and atypical development

• Tuesday 22 March: No meeting

• Tuesday 29 March: Seminar: Dr. Tony Steffert (Educational NeuroCare): 101 Introduction to EEG Neurofeedback'

• Tuesday 5 April: No meeting

• Tuesday 12 April: Seminar: Dr. Emily Jones (Centre for Child Health, Behaviour and Development, Seattle): Gender differences in social perception in infancy

 

Autumn 2010

• Tuesday 26 October: Sam: Training attention with contingent video displays in 12 month olds: Results and discussion

• Tuesday 2 November: Paper discussion: Williams syndrome, social skills, and language

• Tuesday 9 November: Vicky Knowland: Developmental trajectories of audio-visual integration: An ERP study

• Tuesday 16 November: Seminar: Dr. Chris Donlan (UCL): Linguistic correlates of children's emergent skills in simple arithmetic: typical and atypical patterns

• Tuesday 23 November: Themis Karaminis: A connectionist model of syntax production in English and Greek - capturing typical development and Specific Language Impairment

• Tuesday 30 November: Seminar: Prof. Cathy Price (FIL, UCL): Functional brain imaging studies of developmental dyslexia

• Tuesday 7 December: Emily Farran: Project update

• Tuesday 12 December: Short project presentations (i) Jo Camp: Problem solving in typical and atypical development - A comparison of Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder; (ii) Hannah Broadbent: The use of virtual environments to examine route learning and the development of cognitive map knowledge in Williams syndrome; (iii) Dean D'Souza: Investigating the cascading effects of poor visual scanning on number [and social] development; (iv) Sam Wass: How to design a successful TV program for infants and toddlers

 

Summer 2010

• Tuesday 20 April: Welcome back meeting

• Tuesday 27 April: Fred: Sensitive periods in brain development: Implications for education

• Tuesday 4 May: Seminar: Prof. Jay Belsky (Birkbeck): Childhood experience and the development of reproductive strategies: An evolutionary theory of socialization revisited

• Tuesday 11 May: Paper discussion: Bates (2008): "Current genetic discoveries and education: Strengths, opportunities, and limitations"; Raizada & Kishiyama (2010): "Effects of socioeconomic status on brain development, and how cognitive neuroscience may contribute to levelling the playing field."

• Tuesday 18 May: Seminar: Prof. Barbara Finlay (Cornell University): Thinking outside the cortex: Social motivation in the evolution and development of language

• Tuesday 25 May: Seminar: Dr. Marie Smith (Birkbeck): Inverse mapping the neuronal correlates of face categorizations

• Wednesday 26 May: Special meeting: Informal discussion on Plasticity and sensitive periods in brain development, with Prof. Mark Johnson, Prof. Daphne Maurer, and Prof. Barbara Finlay. Time: 3-5pm. Venue: Liz Bates Seminar Room.

• Tuesday 1 June: Seminar: Dr. Jo van Herwegen (Kings College): Novel metaphor and metonymy in Williams syndrome and typical development

• Tuesday 8 June: Seminar: Sam Wass: Training attention in 12-month-old infants using adaptive video displays

• Tuesday 15 June: Short data presentations: Debi Ghosh, Dean de Souza, Matthew Cranwell

• Tuesday 22 June: Seminar: Dr. Michael Dash (Birkbeck): prenatal brain imaging

• Tuesday 29 June: Vicky: Data presentation

• Tuesday 6 July: Seminar: Dr. Luca Onnis: Some constraints on statistical language learning

 

Spring 2010

• Tuesday 5 January: Welcome back meeting

• Tuesday 12 January: Seminar: Roberto Filippi: A selective attention study with monolinguals and bilinguals

• Tuesday 19 January: Seminar: Dr. Harry Purser: A comparison of synthetic brain imaging and lesioning as methods to measure functional specialisation in artificial neural networks

• Tuesday 26 January: Discussion paper: Ploeger et al. (2009) Why did the savant syndrome not spread in the population? A psychiatric example of a developmental constraint

• Tuesday 2 February: Seminar: Dr. Michael Dash: The origin and early development of consciousness

• Tuesday 9 February: Themis Karaminis: Data presentation on: A cross-linguistic developmental model of syntax comprehension

• Tuesday 16 February: Vicky Knowland: Data presentation on: Exploring the neural correlates of audio-visual integration

• Tuesday 23 February: Seminar: Dr. Fiona Richardson (Institute of Neurology): Using dynamic causal modelling to investigate the cortical dynamics of multimodal brain regions in language comprehension

• Tuesday 2 March: Seminar: Dr. Emma Meaburn (Birkbeck): How do genetic and environmental factors work at the biological level to influence behaviour?

• Tuesday 9 March: Fred: Modelling developmental regression in autism: Possible avenues for explaining heterogeneity in the wider autism phenotype

• Tuesday 16 March: Seminar: Dr. Derek Moore (East London): Assessing the impact of socio-economic status: from infant brain to social gain

• Tuesday 23 March: Seminar: Prof. Mark Johnson (Birkbeck): Theories in developmental cognitive neuroscience

• Tuesday 30 March: Seminar: Dr. Jo McCleery (Birmingham): Neural correlates of auditory gesture and speech processing / Neurodevelopmental basis of face and object processing in children with autism

 

Autumn 2009

• Tuesday 22 September: Welcome back meeting

• Tuesday 29 October: No meeting (PhD induction)

• Tuesday 6 October: Paper discussion: Socio-economic status and cognitive development

• Tuesday 13 October: Fred talk rehearsal: Neuroconstructivism and the learning brain – perspectives on the overlap between autism and specific language impairment

• Tuesday 20 October: Alan Richomme, MSc thesis: Modelling the typical and atypical development of face recognition

• Tuesday 27 October: Dr. Harry Pursuer, paper discussion: Steven Harnad’s theory of categorisation

• Tuesday 3 November: No meeting

• Tuesday 10 November: Seminar: Dr. Fabrizio Pizzioli: ERP approaches to developmental language impairment

• Tuesday 17 November: Seminar: Kerry Hudson and Susie Formby: Drawing and visual search in Williams syndrome

• Tuesday 24 November: Themis Karaminis: data presentation

• Thursday 26 November: Fred talk rehearsal: Mapping cognitive functions to brain regions

• Tuesday 1 December: No meeting

• Tuesday 8 December: Seminar: Hayley Leonard: Spatial frequency and face recognition

• Tuesday 15 December: Vicky Knowland: data presentation

 

Summer 2009

• Tuesday April 21: Welcome back, conference info, timetable

• Tuesday April 28: Behavioural genetics tutorial

• Tuesday May 5: Seminar: Dr. Suzy Styles (Oxford): Infant word learning

• Tuesday May 12: Seminar: Prof. Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck): Bayesian modelling of development

• Tuesday May 19: Paper session: Ramus & Szenkovits (2008) ‘What phonological deficit?’; Wang et al. (2009), ‘Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders’

• Tuesday May 26: Seminar: Dr. Dagmara Annaz: Face construction tasks in children with autism, Williams syndrome, and Downs syndrome

• Tuesday June 2: Seminar: Dr. Lorna Halliday (UCL) on language disorders

• Tuesday June 9: No lab meeting: Centre for Educational Neuroscience Symposium

• Tuesday June 16: Seminar: Dr. Gilly Forrester (Sussex): Multi-dimensional approaches to early child communication in typical and atypical development

• Tuesday June 23: Seminar: Prof. Tony Charman (Institute of Education): Language regression in autism

• Tuesday June 30: Dr. Dagmara Annaz and Prof. Annette Karmiloff-Smith: Sleep abnormalities in developmental disorders

• Tuesday July 7: Seminar: Dr. Emily Farran (Institute of Education): Use of virtual reality tasks to explore spatial navigation in Williams syndrome

• Tuesday July 14: Fred talk rehearsal: Using trajectory analysis to explore the origins of developmental deficits

 

Spring 2009

• Tuesday January 20th: Discussion paper: Groszer et al. (2008). Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits. Current Biology.

• Tuesday January 27th: Seminar: Dr. Emily Farran (Institute of Education): Spatial cognition in Williams syndrome

• Tuesday February 3rd: Seminar: Dr. Fred Dick (Birkbeck): Cortical auditory organisation and reorganisation

• Tuesday February 10th: Seminar: Sam Wass: Intervention studies in typical and atypical development

• Tuesday February 17th: Seminar: Dr Rosa Hoekstra ( The Open University): Unravelling the association between autistic traits and intelligence: findings from a longitudinal twin study

• Tuesday February 24th: Seminar: Dr. Harry Purser: Studies of figurative language comprehension in children with autism, specific language impairment, and pragmatic language impairment

• Tuesday March 3rd: Tessa Dekker: Data presentation from fMRI study

• Tuesday March 10th: Fred talk rehearsal: The origins of genius

• Tuesday March 17th: Vicky Knowland: Data presentation

• Tuesday March 24th: No meeting

• Tuesday March 31st: Seminar: Themis Karaminis: Cross-linguistic data from Greek children with Specific Language Impairment