Research successes: May 2010
May 2010
General news
Gina Conti-Ramsden has been awarded the gold medal for research excellence by the oldest University in Latin America, La Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima, Perú. In a ceremony in "La Casona", the oldest site of the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Gina was made lifetime Honorary Professor by the President of the University. At a separate ceremony, Gina was also honoured for her outstanding and distinguished contribution to Psychology. She was made a Fellow of the Peruvian Psychological Society (Colegio de Psicólogos del Perú) and given the gold pin of the association.
Dr. Sarah Suter from Audiology and Deafness (A&D) and Dr. Daniel Roberts from Clinical Neuroscience and Language Disorders (CNLD) both passed their PhD vivas with minor corrections in May.
Dougal Hare from Clinical and Health Psychology (CHP) gave a keynote address at The British Psychological Society's Faculty of Learning Disabilities annual conference at the very end of April.
Imran Mulla (a PhD student from A&D) delivered a poster presentation at the first LENA conference in Denver. Lena is innovative software that allows monitoring and analysis of the language enironment of deaf children. He also provided the LENA Foundation newsletter with a graduate testimonial.
Grants
There were a number of summer studentships won in the School of Psychological Sciences for undergraduate students to undertake research over the summer period.
Katherine Berry (CHP) won a summer studentship from the BPS. In A&D, Kathryn Hopkins and Catherine Siciliano won studentships from RNID and Karolina Kluk won one from RNID.
Papers accepted
Gorana Pobric and Matt Lambon Ralph from CNLD had their paper "Category-specific versus category-general semantic impairment induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation" published in Current Biology.
This month Evan Kidd from Language and Communication (L&C) had 3 papers accepted and one published. This includes the following:
- Kidd, E. (in press). Individual differences in syntactic priming in language acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics
- Kidd, E., Stewart, A., & Serratrice, L. (in press). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: The role of the referential scene in garden path recovery. Journal of Child Language
- Ramany, R., Marefat, H., & Kidd, E. (accepted). Persian-speaking children's acquisition of relative clauses. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Nitschke, S., Kidd, E., & Serratrice, L. (2010). First language transfer and long-term structural priming in comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 94 - 114.
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