Looking forward to presenting my poster at #BACN25 later today! Please stop by to chat about how our brains represent scenes of different categories

🧠✨ 7-year-olds needed?
UEA PhD student Lizzie Watson is running an exciting EEG study to see how children’s brains respond to pictures of different places

📍 UEA, Norwich
⏱ 1 session (max 1 hr 25 mins)
💷 £15 book voucher + small toy
🚗 Travel reimbursed

📩 lizzie.watson@uea.ac.uk

Having a great time talking to little scientists about MRI and EEG today! 🧠 @ddpsyuea.bsky.social

New study for parents of deaf children at @psychologyuea.bsky.social - please share!

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Our student-led video series highlighting the latest in science at the 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, UEA!

We interviewed 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 about her latest work: "When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation."

Full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really enjoyed tonight's pint of science talks in Norwich, about NMR and ferrofluids - very cool! 🧲🍩 #pint25

Thank you to all the researchers who helped collect data, children who took part, the Norwich Science Festival team, Antje Nuthmann and Prerna Aneja for their advice in modelling our data, and to the reviewers whose comments were extrememly helpful 🙂

Overall, our findings suggest young children have an impressive ability to process scene gist, which follows a protracted development towards expertise across middle childhood

Children are great at processing scene gist!
At the superordinate level, performance is high and appears to plateau after 7-8 years.
Children struggled more with the basic task, particularly at the shorter durations where we saw no improvement with age.

At the Norwich Science Festival over 100 children aged 5-10 years categorised briefly presented scenes at the superordinate (inside vs outside) and basic level. Here’s what we found...

New paper alert! (and the first from my PhD 🥳)
With @glmalcolm.bsky.social and Louise Ewing

When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation is now available in Vision Research

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression Abstract. Interpersonal space is regulated carefully and updated dynamically during social interactions to maintain comfort. We investigated the naturalist

Very excited to see Kristina's brilliant work on interpersonal distance published 👀🧠 Such a cool and out there EEG set up! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Why there’s no such thing as normal in child development One of the tricky things about researching child development is that it occurs within a cultural and social context.

Some holiday reading for developmental folks - our latest in The Conversation @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/why-theres-n...

Neurodiversity Can Explain Differences in How People Experience Everyday Life Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a pe...

What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities?

We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :)

By @aalcorn.bsky.social, @katiecebula.bsky.social, @suereviews.bsky.social and me.

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Hello 👋 my name is Lizzie Watson I'm a psychology researcher interested in:
- Childhood Development
- Scene Categorisation
- Neuroimaging
I'm also a lab technician at UEA helping to run EEG, fMRI and eye tracking studies 👀🧠