SANDPIT Research Group
@sandpit_lab
Research group studying neurocognitive development in childhood with a focus on #autism #ADHD & #behavioural traits | Led by @Rachael_Bedford
Excited to finally share our new paper on the impact of superficial signal contamination on young children’s #fNIRS data recorded in naturalistic settings 🧠🏃🏻♂️@timothy_j_smith @larisamdinu @BirkbeckBabylab 👉🏻doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.…
Team meeting for our @UKRI_News Animating Minds project, followed by leaving celebrations for our amazing @UniofBath placement students @CrystalMazeHQ.
Come and join our lab! Postdoc and RA position available - details below
Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA @QM_Psych @QMUL as part of our @UKRI_News funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/pos… RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-e…
Come and join our lab with this fully funded PhD position.
Fully funded PhD @QMUL @QM_Psych on ‘Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind’. More details and how to apply here: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
Koch, @ELPlearn 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…
“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!” @LGrocott_EY explores how we can support children’s emerging vocabulary. 👉 eef.li/72XsSt
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…
Check out this new PhD opportunity to come and join our lab @QM_Psych. Details of how to apply are here⬇️
New PhD project @QM_Psych @QMUL supervised with @ValdasNoreika & @GligaTeea - using EEG to investigate sleep mechanisms in infancy, with funding options via the China Scholarship Council (CSC): findaphd.com/phds/project/s…
New @QM_Psych 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…
Our intervention on toddlers’ pre-bed screen time is out in @JAMAPediatrics today! Huge thanks to @NuffieldFound for funding, to our charity partners @EYAlliance, @TheSleepCharity & @NCTcharity and to all the incredible families who participated!
Professor @Rachael_Bedford adds: "Results suggest the trial was highly feasible for parents, with all of the intervention families completing the trial." For more insights, read the full study published open-access in @JAMAPediatrics: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
🚨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🙏)
Very excited to get started on this interdisciplinary @UKRI_News project ‘Animating Minds’ in collaboration with such a fantastic team, led by @timothy_j_smith. Will be advertising a postdoc position @QMUL @QM_Psych soon!
Thirty-six projects will share £32.4m from the first round of our new interdisciplinary scheme. We're also launching the second round of funding with a further £32.5 million available. More on the projects announced today: ukri.org/news/first-pro…
Breaking: @OpenAI’s Minecraft agent VPT kills villagers! In other news: our paper on dissecting VPT with various interpretability techniques was accepted at the Mechanistic Interpretability workshop at ICML. 1/7
🚨After 4 years of work w/ brilliant co-lead @gao_yidian, I’m happy to share that the ENIGMA-Antisocial Behavior Working Group’s 1st study on brain structure alterations in Conduct Disorder is out in Lancet Psychiatry: tinyurl.com/TLP-ASB @enigmabrains @BathPsychology 1/9
First day back after annual leave started with an interview for a qualified job. Pleased to say I was offered the role and will be staying working in neuro 🥳
Wahoo! The next installment of our "triology" of fNIRS studies has been published in @ImagingNeurosci 👶🧠 Here, we investigated inhibitory control skills and associated neural correlates in 16m old infants. direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…
Interested in becoming a lecturer at QMUL (and working with me and a really, really great team!). Check out this new T&R lectureship (deadline 16 June): qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…
Great article about some of our studies at the Bath Babylab! @UniofBath @BathPsychology stories.bath.ac.uk/BA2-issue-31/f…
Impressive talk by Essi Viding, recipient of the2024 Lifetime Achievement Award of SSSP
Postdoc with me, 14 months from this autumn on our awesome VR x kids project… pls take a look and pass on! tinyurl.com/DurhamVRKids