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The April @ExpPsychSoc meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & @jotaylor2306 has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
📣🧠 1 week to go! Please come join us at @lancspsychres - we are hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Assistant/Associate Prof equivalent) with a background in cog neuro, social neuro, dev neuro etc. Happy to chat! 🧠📣
‼️Closing Sept 30th ‼️ Lecturer/Senior Lecturer job! Seeking a new colleague with expertise in human neuroscience to join our awesome psych dept @LancasterUni. Strategic post to develop our neuro research - get in touch for a chat! Pls RT!
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
‼️Closing Sept 30th ‼️ Lecturer/Senior Lecturer job! Seeking a new colleague with expertise in human neuroscience to join our awesome psych dept @LancasterUni. Strategic post to develop our neuro research - get in touch for a chat! Pls RT!
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
The portals for #EPSLondon25 are now open!
Portals will remain open for at least 24 hours, please see the below page for more info and to submit!
eps.ac.uk/submit-an-abstract…
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"One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time."
My review & meta-analysis of visual world studies on phonological prediction is now out in JML😊
I found a small, short-lived but reliable effect & an interesting timing re when phonology is activated.
some methodological implications for VWP studies!
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
We compared the vocabulary in 32 GCSE English Lit books to 200 samples of 32 books popular with British teenagers. We argue that the GCSE books will stretch avid readers with strong reading skills; these books may be inaccessible to pupils with poorer reading skills.
1-yr part-time (0.8 FTE) lecturer (teaching) post based in London supporting undergraduate students on the UCL BSc/MSci Psychology programme @UCLPALS
Must be able to start in September
Application deadline 6th August
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
As an aside, this is the 6th paper we've published in @JCgntn in the last 2 years. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Consistently constructive reviews. High expectations wrt open science. Speedy and fully open access.
Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
I'm a particular fan of their "Data Report" submission format that allows papers like this that are focused on sharing useful materials/data without the need for lengthy theoretical interpretation
How does video media exposure affect language skills in children aged 3-11?
New review paper from @UCLPALS researchers Anna Gowenlock, @lilacCourt & @JenniRodd.They find a divided literature with both ve and −ve associations discussed: bit.ly/4di2gvJ@EP_UCL
ALT How does video media exposure affect language skills in children aged 3-11?
Her review reveals a divided literature in which video viewing is linked to short-term benefits from high-quality video media, alongside negative/null long-term associations with standardised language measures