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Saloni was ‘highly commended’ for her efforts to ensure neuroscience research is as robust, reliable, replicable, and reproducible as possible in the 2021 BNA Credibility in Neuroscience round of prizes. Thank you to the Credibility Advisory Board, and a big congratulations to the winners!

N-CoDe Lab PhD student Amrita has been taking part in “I’m a Scientist: Get me out of here!”, featuring on their Psychology zone.   Amrita says, “This is a great scheme which schools across the UK are invited to join, and it offers an exciting student-led online activity. Students are able to ask participating scientists questions…

Saloni has been awarded the 2021 BPS Developmental Section Neil O’Connor prize, for her recent publication titled ‘Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder’, which appeared in the journal NeuroImage in 2021 [read it here]. The Neil O’Connor prize is awarded annually for an excellent piece of published research on cognitive disorders that…

Saloni wrote an article for Times Higher Education discussing building a lab as a new lecturer. You can see on THE here, or click to download a copy!

I (Saloni) am delighted to be giving a talk about the latest work from the Oxford BOLD study, “Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder”, at SNL’s first virtual meeting. Session details to follow soon! It’s disappointing not to be able to give this talk in person, and not to be…

On the 26th of June 2020, Saloni hosted a university-wide session on Racism in Science and Academia. Her guest was Angela Saini, award-winning British science journalist and author of recent book “Superior: The Return of Race Science”, as well as “Inferior: How science”. Angela spoke about a range of issues, including the uncomfortable history of…

Bethany Garvin is a second-year Psychology student at Royal Holloway, who is joining the N-CoDe Lab as a summer research assistant. Bethany has been awarded an Outstanding Student Research Bursary from the Department of Psychology (funded by the ESRC SeNSS DTP). During her internship in the lab, she plans to work on curiosity-driven word learning…

Saloni has been awarded a small research grant from the Experimental Psychology Society for the project, “The role of intrinsic reward in children’s word learning”. This award will fund new work examining if the activity and connectivity of subcortical reward regions relates to word learning success in children. When it is safe to resume scanning,…

To welcome our newest member, Amrita Bains, the N-CoDe lab went out to dinner at a lovely Italian place in Egham. We’re delighted to have Amrita on board!