BabyLab News

9 February 2022 The much awaited BabyPaL monkey-LEAP Project welcomed their first two inquisitive Little Scientists yesterday and they set the project off with a bang! BabyPaL are exploring rule learning in 5.5 - 8 month-old Little Scientists and want to see whether at this age they can learn to...

9 February 2022 Last week PIPKIN Researchers Borja and Dianna ventured out to measure this Little Scientist's brain activity in his own home! They are still looking for families with babies below the age of six weeks to welcome them in their homes and help us prepare for the ambitious PIPKIN study...

1 February 2022 Some extremely exciting news in the Cambridge Babylab; Dr Hana D'Souza and the Embodied Lab will be moving to Cardiff University School of Psychology this autumn ( https://bit.ly/3FIOMrw )!! This is an incredible opportunity for the Embodied Lab, although everyone at the Cambridge...

25 October 2021 Addie and Ellie from the BabyPaL Project presented some data at the Society of fNIRS Virtual Conference 2021! page_of_article_.png Related links Hear them talk here!

15 October 2021 And that's a wrap! Ellie & Addie are so thankful for all the fabulous Mums, Dads and Little Scientists who have taken the time to visit the Cambridge Babylab over the past year - interspersed with Lockdowns! - to help us finally finish data collection for the BabyPaL-GiggleDOT...

20 September 2021 PhD Student Dianna, part of the PIPKIN Team has published a new Review Article in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, titled: "Infant social interactions and brain development: A systematic review"! Abstract: From birth, interactions with others are an integral part of a...

29 July 2021 Dr Ellie Smith from the BabyPaL Project has recently published a new paper from her PhD at the Lancaster Babylab in Infant Behavior and Development, titled: " Infants Oscillatory Frequencies change during Free-Play" . The present research sought to explore the inverse obstacle of...

15 July 2021 What was it like to be pregnant, to give birth and to look after a baby in the middle of a pandemic? For this Insights article, photographer and researcher of visual cultures James Clifford Kent teamed up with developmental psychologist Sarah Lloyd-Fox to write about what they learned...

15 July 2021 Check out the new paper on bilingualism in infants by our own Dr Hana D'Souza! Hana's paper shows that infants raised in bilingual homes re-direct attention faster than infants raised in monolingual homes! So, how can mere exposure to a bilingual enviornment affect an infant's...

30 June 2021 Our colleague Dr. Borja Blanco just published a new paper on bilingual adaptations in resting state functional connectivity in Neurophotonics! Congratulations Borja! Abstract: Significance: Early monolingual versus bilingual experience induces adaptations in the development of...