Today I presented my PhD project, attempting to decode scene category from children's ERPs, at EPS Essex 🧠⚡️ Thank you to everyone who had a chance to visit my poster!
Lizzie Watson
@elizabethwatson.bsky.social
PhD student at UEA researching scene processing in children EEG technician she/they
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Looking forward to presenting my poster at #BACN25 later today! Please stop by to chat about how our brains represent scenes of different categories
🧠✨ 7-year-olds needed? UEA PhD student Lizzie Watson is running an exciting EEG study to see how children’s brains respond to pictures of different places 📍 UEA, Norwich ⏱ 1 session (max 1 hr 25 mins) 💷 £15 book voucher + small toy 🚗 Travel reimbursed 📩 lizzie.watson@uea.ac.uk
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐩 Our student-led video series highlighting the latest in science at the 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, UEA! We interviewed 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 about her latest work: "When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation." Full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Really enjoyed tonight's pint of science talks in Norwich, about NMR and ferrofluids - very cool! 🧲🍩 #pint25
New paper alert! (and the first from my PhD 🥳) With @glmalcolm.bsky.social and Louise Ewing When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation is now available in Vision Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very excited to see Kristina's brilliant work on interpersonal distance published 👀🧠 Such a cool and out there EEG set up! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression
Abstract. Interpersonal space is regulated carefully and updated dynamically during social interactions to maintain comfort. We investigated the naturalist
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Some holiday reading for developmental folks - our latest in The Conversation @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-theres-n...
Why there’s no such thing as normal in child development
One of the tricky things about researching child development is that it occurs within a cultural and social context.
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What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities? We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :) By @aalcorn.bsky.social, @katiecebula.bsky.social, @suereviews.bsky.social and me. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Neurodiversity Can Explain Differences in How People Experience Everyday Life
Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a pe...
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Hello 👋 my name is Lizzie Watson I'm a psychology researcher interested in: - Childhood Development - Scene Categorisation - Neuroimaging I'm also a lab technician at UEA helping to run EEG, fMRI and eye tracking studies 👀🧠
