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Understanding hearing and listening in a classroom using fNIRS
How do our brains help us to listen and learn in a classroom setting? We are looking for 6-12-year-olds with normal hearing to take part in our research study lasting up to 3 hours. We will be using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to understand how the brain processes speech in a conversation between an adult researcher (acting as a teacher) and a child student. This will take place in our new naturalistic classroom lab at Lancaster University.
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Blurry and fun pictures
In this study, neurotypical children aged 5-12 with normal colour vision are invited to take part in an eye-tracking experiment where they will get to select between fuzzy and blurry images!
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What is different about autistic children's and teens' thinking?
We know that some types of thinking are different in autistic people, but these can be very hard to measure well. For children of secondary school age, we are looking at what children prefer and how they experience the world. Do children like a neat, ordered and predictable world, or do they like things to be surprising? We are working out if parents and children agree on what teenagers like - how well do parents know their children? Study opening soon!