In the new episode of our podcast Joanna Kolak talks to Dr Katie Twomey, a lecturer from the University of Manchester and an expert in language and cognitive development. Katie explains how children’s learning is driven by curiosity, based on various experiments to date with infants and toddlers. Can children’s curiosity prompt their word learning? […]
Hi Everyone! We hope you enjoyed the previous episodes of our podcast. Today we present a new episode in which Dr Gemma Taylor talks to Dr Jamie Lingwood, a Developmental Psychologist specialising in child’s language development and an alumni member of the Leeds Child Development Unit. Jamie was telling us about his research in which […]
In today’s podcast Joanna Kolak, researcher from our lab, talks to Professor Angelo Cangelosi form the University of Manchester. Angelo is an expert in language grounding and embodiment in humanoid robots, developmental robotics and human-robot interaction. In the podcast he explains what developmental robotics is and how it combines research on child development with studies on […]
In today’s podcast Dr Gemma Taylor, who runs our lab, talks to Dr Amy Bidgood, a lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the University of Salford. Amy is an expert in child language development and was telling us about how children learn their first words and how best to support their language development. Here are the […]
In today’s podcast, Joanna Kolak, researcher from our lab, talks to Dr Daniela Ghio – lecturer from the University of Salford and a Charted Psychologist with interests in digital health across the lifespan and paediatric psychology. Based on the research she was involved in, Daniela tells us about how best to support children and young […]
We are pleased to introduce the Salford Cognitive Development Lab’s podcast – a mini series where we talk to academic experts to take a closer look at some of the most recent research on child development. In the first episode of our podcast Dr Gemma Taylor who runs our lab talks to Dr Greg Keenan, […]
On the 12th July we had a pleasure to present our poster at Child Language Symposium in Sheffield. In our study we discussed the differences between language used in the most popular educational apps, the best seller books aimed at 2-year-olds and in language directed to children by their parents. See the attached poster to […]
My name is Shenitta and I am a 1st year Undergraduate Single Honours Psychology student at the University of Salford. From observing the diverse and multicultural society, I have developed an interest in mental health disorders and how environmental factors such as nutrition can affect gene sequences and hormones which can result in a change […]
Our Research Assistant Joanna Kolak has attended the Digital Media and Developing Minds Congress in New York in October 2018 and presented a poster titled “Understanding the educational potential of touchscreen apps targeting 2-5 year old children”. The poster shows preliminary results of the first study of our ESRC funded project. Have a look at the poster […]
“My son loved taking part in the study at Salford Cognitive Development lab. It was a fun and interactive experience and we’re looking forward to a return visit”-Parvinder, mum of a 2 year old boy The burgeoning choice of children’s apps available to download can feel a little bewildering. So how can you tell if […]