A5062151598- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Language Development and Disorders
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
Birkbeck, University of London
2024-2025
Universidad de Londres
2024
University College London
2023
College of the Holy Cross
2018
Although stigma has been linked to suboptimal psychological and physical health outcomes in marginalized communities such as persons of color, sexual minorities, people living with HIV/AIDS, no known research examined these effects among deaf individuals. In the present research, we examine associations between anticipated, enacted, internalized well-being (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety) quality life, alcohol use) a sample 171 emerging adults. Furthermore, consider whether trait...
Abstract Much of a child’s early learning takes place during social interactions with others. Neural synchrony, the temporal alignment individuals’ functional brain activity, is neural mechanism that may support successful interaction, but its biological origins and sensitivity to environmental factors remain unknown. This study measures coherence between 4- 6-year-old children their mothers using wearable near-infrared spectroscopy (“fNIRS”) in collaborative problem-solving hyperscanning...
A bilingual’s highly variable early language learning demands may drive adaptations in social attention. For example, bilinguals show differences face processing compared to monolinguals, automatically orienting more rapidly faces and dwelling longer on mouths than monolinguals. However, it is difficult identify specific visual strategies from average-level data. This pre-registered study uses growth curve analysis within trials explore individual monolingual bilingual children’s dynamic...
Werker and Tees (1984) prompted decades of research attempting to detail the paths infants take towards specialisation for sounds their native language(s). Most this has examined trajectories monolingual children. However, it also been proposed that bilinguals, who are exposed greater phonetic variability than monolinguals must learn rules two languages, may remain perceptually open non-native language later into life monolinguals. Using a visual habituation paradigm, current study tests...
Abstract Bilingual infants rely differently than monolinguals on facial information, such as lip patterns, to differentiate their native languages. This may explain, at least in part, why young and bilinguals show differences social attention. For example, the first year, attend faster more often static faces over non-faces do (Mercure et al., 2018). However, developmental trajectories of these are unknown. In this pre-registered study, data were collected from 15- 18-month-old (English)...
Werker and Tees' (1984) canonical study prompted decades of research attempting to detail the paths infants take towards specialisation for sounds their native language(s). Most this has examined trajectories monolingual children. However, it also been proposed that bilinguals, who are exposed greater phonetic variability than monolinguals must learn rules two languages, may remain perceptually open non-native language later into life monolinguals. Using a visual habituation paradigm,...