Category: n-code
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TooledUp Education – Parenting Podcast
Saloni and Pablo are delighted to be featured as TooledUp Education‘s Researchers of the Month, discussing their work on intrinsic reward during word learning. You can read more here or listen to them talking with Dr. Rhodes on the parenting podcast below.
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Welcome Sana!
We are delighted to welcome Sana Chugtai to the lab. Sana joins us as an RA on the PROPEL project.
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Cambridge Language Sciences
Saloni was delighted to be invited to speak at the Cambridge Language Sciences Annual symposium. She spoke about the role of reward in language learning, pointing to the role of both intrinsic and extrinsic reward as well as some of the lab’s new findings about how ability can influence the experience of reward. She was…
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New paper in Mind, Brain and Education!
We are delighted that Dr. Holly Coates McDowall’s DClinPsy research project, “Cognitive reappraisal reduces academic anxiety in university students with dyslexia”, has been accepted for publication in Mind, Brain and Education. We hope these results will prompt the use of cognitive reappraisal to help university students with dyslexia. Look out for a blog summarising the…
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Visit to NYU
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!
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Visit to Groningen
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.
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DLD Day 2024
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…
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Congratulations Dr. Bains!
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.…
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The lab at BACN24
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!
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Summer Science Exhibition
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: