Category: n-code
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SNL 2020
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…
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Racism in Science and Academia
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…
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New lab member
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…
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Grant news!
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,…
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Welcome Amrita!
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!
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ESRC funded PhD available in the N-CoDe Lab
Applications are invited for a SeNSS ESRC-funded collaborative PhD studentship in the N-CoDe lab titled, “Investigating and enhancing motivation for reading” Supervisors Primary supervisor: Dr. Saloni Krishnan Supervisory Team: Dr Jessie Ricketts, and Dr. Joshua Balsters (Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr. Carina Spaulding (The Reading Agency). Project background Reading ability influences academic achievement, career prospects. and personal…
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RA Job announcement
Dr. Jessie Ricketts (of the LARA lab at Royal Holloway) is advertising a graduate research assistant opportunity in her lab, and the post will involve working in the N-CoDe lab as well. Please see the link below for further details! https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1019-408
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Welcome to Tau and Annie!
The N-CoDe lab just got a little larger! Tau and Annie, two fantastic undergraduates, have just joined the lab. They will be working on a project investigating reward responses in the adolescent brain during word learning.
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Saloni joins Royal Holloway
Dr. Saloni Krishnan joined Royal Holloway in May 2019, and set up the N-CoDe Lab. The department featured her in a staff spotlight, which can be accessed here