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Saloni visited the Ripollés Lab @ NYU, interacting with academics in the Department of Psychology and MARL. This was a fantastic, interesting visit, allowing us to generate lots of new ideas. Saloni and Pablo also spoke on a podcast together!

Saloni was delighted to receive an Erasmus Mundus scholar grant to visit the University of Groningen. As part of the visit, Saloni gave lectures on the European Masters in Clinical Linguistics programme. Saloni also enjoyed meeting members of the Cladis Lab and hearing about the exciting work they were doing.

This year, members of the N-CoDe Lab and UCL Language and Cognition delivered treats and facts about DLD to schools in our local community. Schools were delighted to receive our little packets, with several heads remarking that they had not heard about DLD before. We were delighted to play a small part in the global…

We are delighted to announce that Amrita has passed her viva. We celebrated her achievement with some fizz and dinner with colleagues from Royal Holloway. During her PhD, Amrita completed an impressive set of studies investigating how to measure and enhance reading motivation, with some of her work is already published or available as preprints.…

It was great to see Sonia and Hannah present new work from the PROPEL project at the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience conference in London. Hannah won the best poster prize as well! Congratulations Hannah!

Saloni gave a talk at the Summer Science Exhibition, which is the Royal Society’s annual celebration of cutting edge science. Saloni spoke about the intrinsic drive to communicate in humans, and how this connected to the lab’s work on reward and motivation. You can see the talk on YouTube here:

We are delighted to announce that the lab is moving to UCL in September 2024. We will be based in the Department of Language and Cognition, which is part of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, which in turn is part of the Faculty of Brain Sciences. UCL is a powerhouse of original research…

We were delighted to be part of RHUL’s Psychology Working Together Event, which attracts a diverse group of educational professionals from the South East Research Network for Schools (SERNS) and helps us make links between research and in the classroom. Sonia led a workshop on rewards and motivation in the classroom and in educational apps,…

We were very excited to present our work on various facets of #dyslexia at BDA24 in Surrey. Nilgoun Bahar gave a talk on her new work that uses MRI to show that better readers find reading more intrinsically rewarding. Hannah Jones presented work from her award-winning undergraduate project on intrinsic motivation in dyslexic readers, which…