🚨Job Ad🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to join our MWAY project on anxiety and depression in autistic young people. The role is for someone with strong quantitative skills and a commitment to collaboration with autistic people. tinyurl.com/yzxe979m (grateful for RTs🙏)

Excited to finally share our new paper on the impact of superficial signal contamination on young children’s #fNIRS data recorded in naturalistic settings 🧠🏃🏻‍♂️Tim J Smith Larisa Dina Birkbeck BabyLab & ToddlerLab 👉🏻doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.…

Our intervention on toddlers’ pre-bed screen time is out in JAMA Pediatrics today! Huge thanks to Nuffield Foundation for funding, to our charity partners Early Years Alliance, @TheSleepCharity & NCT and to all the incredible families who participated!

New QMUL Psychology Child Development Lab set up underway today! Looking forward to seeing our first participants in the lab soon. Check out our new webpage here: seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbb/research/w…

Check out this new PhD opportunity to come and join our lab QMUL Psychology. Details of how to apply are here⬇️

Seeing caresses makes babies smile. Addabbo, Licht & Turati's (2024) EMG study shows that 11mos respond to the observation of affective tactile interactions with increased activity of the zygomaticus facial muscle. #infancypapers #developmentalpsychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

“Consider your everyday interactions with children, and you will quickly recognise the vast array of opportunities within them to help children understand or use new words!” Lauren Grocott explores how we can support children’s emerging vocabulary. 👉 eef.li/72XsSt

Koch, Rachel Barr et al. (2024) tested deferred imitation abilities of 2yos after live and video demos: pic book reading <30min/day ➡️ lower memory scores for live demos, watching video >1h/day ➡️ lower memory scores for video demos #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

Come and join our lab with this fully funded PhD position.

Come and join our lab! Postdoc and RA position available - details below

Team meeting for our UK Research and Innovation Animating Minds project, followed by leaving celebrations for our amazing University of Bath placement students The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience.

Meet the team currently working on the Animating Minds Project as part of Queen Mary's Child Development Lab! The aim of the project is to investigate the impact of children's animation features on the executive functions of children using eye tracking and fNIRS technology🧠

Welcome to our labs at Queen Mary! The first lab is our Child Development Lab. This is a ‘chill out’ space or waiting area for children and parents. The second lab is the Eye Tracking Lab. Eye tracking will be used to see how animations are impacting executive functioning!

At the House of Lords with Tim J Smith to discuss the need for evidence-based #screentime guidance in the early years with Baroness Joanna Penn. UK Research and Innovation #AnimatingMinds, Nuffield Foundation #BedtimeBoost.

You might’ve heard that people are either left-brained, making them logical, or right-brained, making them creative…but this is not the case! 🧠 We are all constantly using both sides of our brain! Did you believe this myth? 🔍

Today is International Disability Day! 🌍 Sofia, a PhD candidate here at QM, is exploring how children’s animation affects the cognition of neurodivergent children. Read about her project below! ⬇️

Now that Christmas is fast approaching, here are some fun facts about how the festive period can support child development! 🎄

A couple of weeks ago the Animating Minds team had a day out at Winter Wonderland! ❄️🎄 We even won some furry friends that took the train home! 🧸💺

Four things you didn't know about infant attention!🧐