Katie Gilligan and Ashley Williams from the CoGDev lab attended this year’s Down Syndrome Research Forum. Ashley’s brilliant blog below highlights the take home messages from the event. Overview of ForumThe 2019 Down Syndrome Research Forum was hosted at UCL by Dr. Jo Van Herwegen and Prof. Sue Buckley. The event was an excellent opportunity […]
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NDAS was hosted this year by co-founder and CoGDeV Lab Director Professor Emily Farran at the University of Surrey. Across 28 talks and 25 posters, the day attracted a wide array of fascinating research from large-scale genetics studies to neuroimaging research to research on transitioning between primary and secondary school, which facilitated much discussion about […]
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The NDAS workshop was the second part of a two-day Neurodevelopmental Disorders Annual Seminar (NDAS19) showcasing the progress of research in neurodevelopmental disorders in the UK. Morning sessions introduced many open science and reproducibility concepts in the context of neurodevelopmental disorder research and beyond. Hannah Hobson discussed the difficulty of achieving substantial power due to […]
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Spatial ability involves being aware of the location and dimensions of objects and their relationships to one another. It is core to everyday living (e.g., giving directions, or packing a suitcase). Research from my group and others has shown that it is also a strong predictor of a person’s mathematics and science abilities – those […]
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“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey Setting the contextIt was a beautiful sunny morning on 6 October 2016, London. A buzz of excitement was in the air as twenty-four eminent speakers from ten different countries and approximately ninety delegates descended on the British Medical House at […]
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The BPS Developmental Section met for its annual conference on 14th September, in the Hilton Hotel, Belfast. Bringing together experienced and early-career researchers from across the UK, the conference showcased recent thinking and research in a broad range of areas of developmental psychology. Five members of the CogDev Lab attended, including Emily Farran, who presented […]
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