• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 3pm
• Web Address: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-study-of-children-s-communication-impairments
• Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Convergent & Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Complexity
  Saloni Krishnan (University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Lexical-Semantic System Organisation: Semantic similarity effects during word recognition in 24-month-old mono- and bilingual toddlers
  If you would like to meet with Dr Sirri to talk about research, please email us.
  Dr Louah Sirri (Lancaster University)

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - What Skills are Related to Bilingual Spelling Outcomes? Evidence from Grade 1 French Immersion Children
  Sheila Chung (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Vocal Emotional Processing Across the Adult Life Span
  Dr Cesar Lima (University College London)

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The Role of Attention in Explaining the Overlap Between ADHD and ASD
  Professor Maddie Groom (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Keeping Grounded: A Longitudinal Study Exploring Immersive Strategies to Improve Children's Comprehension of Narrative Texts
  Molly Berenhaus (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Neural Sex Differences, Hormones & Autism
  Amber Ruigrok

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Acquisition of non-adjacent phonological dependencies: from speech perception to lexical acquisition
  Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Do autistic children really see details at the expense of the whole?
  Catherine Manning (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Neuroimaging work on social interaction in both neurotypical adults and those with Autism
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kyle Jasmie

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Making Sense of an Uncertain World: Probabilistic Computation in the Developing Brain
  Marko Nardini (Durham University)

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Investigating the development of early executive function skills in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Alex Hendry

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Neuroimaging of autistics and controls in spontaneous multimodal conversation
  Dr Kyle Jasmin (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Longitudinal development of attention and executive function during the first year of life
  Dr Karla Holmboe (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Looking and learning: insights from atypical spontaneous gaze behaviour in autism
  Dr Mary Hanley (Durham University)

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Charo Rueda (University of Granada)

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Dr Josie Booth (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Individual differences in the detection of incongruence: an eye-movement study of children’s pronoun processing
  Sarah Eilers (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Modeling influences of home environment and assessing intervention effects on Filipino children’s early language and literacy skills
  Katrina May Dulay (Chinese University of Hong Kong )

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - fNIRS in Africa and the UK: studying infants at risk for compromised development
  Sarah Lloyd-Fox

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Nurturing the development of executive attention
  Professor Charo Rueda (University of Granada)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Concept-based word learning in infancy
  Dr Gergely Csibra (Central European University )
• 15:00 - Concept-Based Word Learning in Infancy
  Dr Gergely Csibra (Central European University )

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Magriet Groen (Radbound University )
• 15:00 - Audiovisual processing and reading: An exploration into the extent and nature of their association
  Dr Margriet Groen (Radboud University )

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Spelling as statistical learning: evidence from children and adults
  Dr Anna Samara (University of Liverpool )

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Simulating Children's Grammar Learning in the Lab with Adults and Artificial Languages
  Dr Fenna Poletiek (University of Leiden )

Tuesday 5 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Development of social behaviour – from mechanisms to interventions
  Dr Niko Steinbeis (UCL)

Tuesday 12 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the life span
  Unfortunately, the Language & Development seminar scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed. Dr Olivia Afonso's talk 'The interaction between spelling & handwriting across the life span' has been rescheduled for Tuesday 30th January.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Olivia Alfonso (Oxford Brookes)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tracking reading throughout primary school: How do phonological skills support early decoding, and do distinct profiles of fluent reading emerge?
  Dr Laura Shapiro (Aston University )

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the life span
  Dr Olivia Afonso (Oxford Brookes)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - From number words to Arabic digits and back again: predicting mathematical development and investigating linguistic influences
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Development and Assessment of Individual Differences in Executive Function in the First Years of Life
  Dr Hanna Mulder (Utrecht University )

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Affective and Regulatory Processes Underpinning Reactive Aggression in Adolescence
  Dr Cat Sebastian (RHUL )

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - What Counts for Early Mathematical Development?
  Dr Vicky Simms (Ulster University )

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Composite Nature of Imitation: How Multiple Abilities Support Children's Social Learning
  Dr Joshua March (University of Dundee)

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Executive Function in Autism: A Comparison Between The Lab and The Real World
  Lorcan Kenny (Institute of Education )

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Tessa Dekker (UCL)

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Rory Devine (University of Birmingham )

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Relationship Between Word Knowledge and Reading in L2 English
  Alexander Krebel (University of Amsterdam)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - What drives the optimisation of vision in childhood?
  Dr Tessa Dekker (UCL)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Using Network Science to Understand the Mental Lexicon
  Dr Cynthia Siew (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Individual Differences in Executive Function in Early Childhood: Social correlates and consequences
  Due to unforeseen circumstances Dr. Devine’s seminar has unfortunately been postponed. The next seminar will be Dr. Carina de Klerk on Tues 27th Nov (on development of mimicry in infancy and toddlerhood).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Rory Devine (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The development and modulation of mimicry in infancy and toddlerhood
  Dr Carina de Klerk (Birkbeck)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Comprehensive literacy instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders
  Dr Jo Arciul (University of Sydney)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - TBC
  Roger Kevit (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Denes Saucs (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Ya-Ning Chang (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Reading and arithmetic: Distinct or related building blocks?
  Kiran Vanbinst (KU Leuven)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: The impact of learning multiple new real-world skills on cognitive abilities and functional independence in older adulthood
  Rachel Wu (University of California, Riverside)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Understanding variability in vocabulary consolidation across development and disorders
  Dr Lisa Henderson (University of York)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The role of physiological arousal during the emergence of ASD symptomatology: From infancy to pre-school
  Tessel Bazelmans (Kings College)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Morphological decomposition within the ventral stream: a representational similarity approach
  Clare Lally (Royal Holloway)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Language and numerical cognition: The way numbers are named matters
  Dr Iro Xenidou-Dervou (Loughborough University)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Language intervention in Early Years education: a tale of two trials
  This talk has been cancelled.
  Gillian West (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Department of Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Towards embracing complexity to understand development: the case of Down syndrome
  Hana DeSouza (Birbeck)

Tuesday 23 July 2019 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Learning & Development Seminar: Skilled readers' sensitivity to meaningful regularities in English writing
  Ana Ulicheva (Royal Holloway)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
  Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Universal or Unique: The case of processing typologically distinct structures in Mandarin Chinese
  Jinman Li

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in dyslexic reading
  Julie Kirkby (Bournemouth University)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Charting the lexicon across the lifespan
  Thomas Hills (Alan Turing Institute)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milledge (University of Southampton)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Home environments, parental skills, and children’s literacy and numeracy skills: Insights from the Philippines
  Kay Dulay