Postdoc @BirkbeckBabylab 🦉 Studying children's interactions & the role of environmental variability in development 🧠 | Vermonter 🍁 | L2 signer of ASL&BSL 🙌
London, England
Joined December 2016
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🚨 Recruiting deaf adults from Greater London (under 35yo) for a new focus group series (interpreters provided!) 🚨
Help us identify priorities and best practices for future research with deaf children & receive £200 for your time! 💰
Email me: v.stclair@bbk.ac.uk📩
How does early bilingualism affect social attention strategies? 👀 In our new preprint, we use within-trial growth curve analysis to test differences in how monolingual and bilingual children allocate their attention over time to static faces and dynamic mouths. (1/3)
We found that after initially looking at faces & mouths, biling infants disengaged more than monos to view other areas of the scene (7-18mo, n=131). In contrast, biling toddlers increased mouth-looking more over stimulus time than monos (18-34mo, n=745 from @DevelopingHCP) (2/3).
More detail here: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/32…. Huge thanks to @teresadelbianco, @EmilyDevNeuro, @MaireadMacS, @Prof_RFilippi, Twitterless coauthors Peter and Atsushi, @EvelyneMercure, and our funders: @ucl, @LeverhulmeTrust, @wellcometrust, @esrc, & @BritishAcademy_ (3/3).
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Applications are still open to our MA/MSc Programme in Developmental Science and Neurodiversity! If you are a graduate of psychology/related discipline or soon-to-be, this is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge contemporary developmental research - bbk.ac.uk/courses/postgradua…
Looking forward to it! 🧠
We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of the Brite Ultra, our cutting edge mass #fNIRS hyperscanning system. Join us at our Hyperscanning Summer School to discovery its full potential!
🔗 Learn more & register: artinis.com/hyperscanning-su…
@PVrticka @ThisistheWei @vlstclair
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Exciting paid research opportunity! Come and work with us on brain development using EEG in the Jones’ lab next academic year @EmilyDevNeuro @BirkbeckBabylab @DivDevSci @Respect4neurod 🧠〰️👶
Applications are now open for the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–26 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students who have not had access to research opportunities. The paid fellowships will run from Sept 2025 - May 2026. Deadline to apply: May 1. For more info: bit.ly/4l2YAlY
Happy to share our new study on neural synchrony during children's collaborative problem-solving! We use wearable fNIRS (@Artinis_MS) to replicate findings that synchrony emerges between 4-6yos and parents during collaboration & provide new insight into what it might mean. (1/4)
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Victoria St. Clair, Denis Mareschal, et al:
Analytical pipeline optimisation in developmental fNIRS hyperscanning data: Neural coherence between 4- to 6-year old children collaborating with their mothers
doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00509
we create a pseudodyad distribution that preserves task-related frequencies whilst disrupting temporal information in the signal. Results suggest synchrony is at least partially related to patterns of social interaction & isn't driven entirely by a shared task/environment. (3/4)
More detail here: tinyurl.com/5975u5u3 & code available here: tinyurl.com/5n9xmahe. Grateful for wonderful co-authors Letizia, @re_re84, @PaolaPinti & Denis, the @BirkbeckBabylab / @BirkbeckUoL Toddlerlab, and funding from the @LeverhulmeTrust. (4/4)
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Check out this exciting study from our colleagues at UEA - they’re recruiting for deaf babies in the UK! @DDPSYUEA
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NEEDED! Research assistants for spring data collection. Experience with deaf children & BSL? Want to grow your research skills? Apply by Fri 7th Feb! Mandatory in-person training: Tues 25th Feb. Questions? Email visualcr@ucl.ac.uk. #PaidJob #ResearchOpportunity
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ONLY 5 MORE TO GO! We are looking for five profoundly/severely deaf 4-year-old children currently in Reception to join our longitudinal project. If you have a child or know someone who might be interested, please reach out! Couldn't have done this without your support! #THANKYOU
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🚨 We are recruiting a research assistant (2 yrs to start) to work with myself and colleagues at the CBCD - working on the new SENSOR longitudinal cohort study cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/resea… 1/4
Great to be part of this with @EvelyneMercure! Look for ch. 39 if you're interested in experience-dependent plasticity in infants' brain activation for language 😊🧠
Excited to share that the Oxford University Press Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is now published! 🌟 Huge thanks to all the incredible contributors who made this possible. Start exploring with a free read of the first chapter: academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
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🔊🔊🔊 Another exciting PhD opportunity with @cbulgarelli01, @maheensidd91, and @IliasTachtsidis ! 🗓️ Deadline is 25th July👇
Interested in understanding the early development of neurovascular coupling with #NIRS? Apply for the @LIDo_DTP PhD program @BirkbeckScience with @UCLmedphys to work with myself ,@IliasTachtsidis and @maheensidd91 Deadline is 25th July! Please RT. 🎓🧠
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Interested in understanding the early development of neurovascular coupling with #NIRS? Apply for the @LIDo_DTP PhD program @BirkbeckScience with @UCLmedphys to work with myself ,@IliasTachtsidis and @maheensidd91 Deadline is 25th July! Please RT. 🎓🧠
Hearing BSL/ASL users (with at least level 2): check out @marielsmith008 & co's online study about L2 sign language learning & face perception😃 bbk.ac.uk/psychology/e/xp/28…
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New pre-print📣 infant-directed speech is as complex as adult speech just differently so - more frequency complexity which may help capture attention, less amplitude/semantic complexity may help word segmentation. By Pierre Labendzki with @UEL_BabyDevLab
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