Find out more about our plan with Child of the North to tackle the SEND crisis. Anne Longfield writes for Schools Week 👇 schoolsweek.co.uk/a-plan-to-star…

Teachers should have “mandatory” training for working with SEND pupils, according to the latest research by Centre for Young Lives & Child of the North The report warns of a lack of coverage for SEND issues in teacher training & a “postcode lottery” for support tes.com/magazine/news/…

The system supposed to support children with special educational needs and disabilities is "broken", says a new report edited by our own Dr Amy Atkinson Lancaster Psychology and Professor Uta Papen Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni. Read the proposals for "urgent action" here 👇 lancaster.ac.uk/news/urgent-ac…

Our review of value-directed prioritisation in working memory now fully out at QJEP. with Amy Atkinson & Graham Hitch. Getting value out of working memory through strategic prioritisation: Implications for storage and control - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Preprint version of a study we did on retrieval practice effects in associative memory -> doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

A second paper from Xiaotong Yin's PhD, looking at concurrent task effects on value-directed prioritisation over different time delays in episodic memory. Out now in Memory: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

On Wednesday 14th August, we will host a Child of the North Centre for Young Lives webinar on adressing the Special Educational Needs support crisis. Speakers will present evidence, policy recommendations & case studies. Join here on 14/08 ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/j/83592658128

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New paper available online in Memory and Cognition! We explored social offloading (i.e., the leveraging of other agents in the social world to facilitate cognitive performance) among adults using a novel visuospatial working memory task. Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.375…

BBC News (UK) TV coverage of our Born In Covid Year - Core Lockdown Effects to support children born during the first year of the pandemic as they start primary school this week. Nikki Botting Lucy Henry City Language & Communication Science University of Leeds ElizabethSelbySchool Speech and Language UK Vanessa Clarke youtu.be/o6TC3l87mLk

Our paper on accelerated forgetting in epilepsy is now out and online at Cortex. With Amy Atkinson, Kata Pauly-Takacs, Dr Courtney Goodridge, Steven Kemp, Sarah Martin, & Alan Baddeley. doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…