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We are delighted to have a new paper out in eLife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/74242 You can read more about this research here, or see a Twitter thread by Saloni here.

Congratulations to Saloni who has just been awarded a New Investigator Research Grant from the MRC. Her project is titled, “Reward and motivation mechanisms supporting language learning: a cross-syndrome investigation of developmental language disorder (DLD) and autism”. The grant uses cutting edge methods (new paradigms, computational models, and MRI) to understand the interplay between motivation…

Lab director Dr. Saloni Krishnan, along with colleagues Dr. Nura Sidarus, Dr. Ilham Sebah, Professor Dawn Watling, and Professor Victoria Bourne have won a Royal Holloway College Team Teaching Prize for their project, “Establishing transparency and inclusivity in accessing and developing research experience.” These prizes recognise initiatives that have had a beneficial effect on student…

We are delighted to welcome Hannah Jones, who joins the N-CoDe Lab with a summer bursary award from Royal Holloway. Hannah will be working on a project about motivation for reading, a topic close to her heart. Find out more about Hannah here!

We warmly welcome Desislava Arabadzhiyska, our new postdoctoral research fellow joining the N-CoDe Lab today. Desi will be investigating intrinsic reward and motivation in children with reading disorders, funded by an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard award. Desi completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow with Professor Marios Philiastides, where she was investigating social…

Saloni recently discussed findings from lab paper, “Curiosity-driven learning in adults with and without dyslexia“ on the PsychologiCALL podcast. Listen here, or read the paper here. Thanks to Dr. Louisa Thomas for the invitation to participate in this incredible series, and for being an excellent host!

Congratulations to Amrita who has received a competitive travel award to attend the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience Conference in May 2022!  

Saloni has been named a 2022 Rising Star by the Association of Psychological Science. This prestigious international designation is presented to outstanding early-career psychologists, whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. You can find out more about Saloni’s research here and the full list of 2022 Rising Stars is…

Thanks to funding from an Academy of Medical Sciences for the project “The neural and cognitive basis of motivation for reading”, we’re looking for a postdoc to join the lab. Over the course of the project, we plan to empirically assess motivation for reading, and assess if motivation might differ in those with reading disorders such…