Research
in Academic Development & Learning Difficulties
Prof. Gaia Scerif
Prof. Dorothy Bishop
Prof. Jane Mellanby
Prof. Roi Cohen Kadosh
Prof. Kate Nation
Dr. Ann Dowker
Prof. Maggie Snowling
Prof. Lucy Bowes
Our Research Themes
Research Topics
- Academic Development & Learning Difficulties
- Anxiety
- Artificial Intelligence
- Attention
- Autism Spectrum
- Brain Damage, Injury & Brain Disorders
- Brain Imaging
- Brain Systems
- Childhood & Adolescence (3-18 years)
- Choice & Decision Making
- Clinical Practice
- Cognition & Information Processing
- Consciousness
- Consumer Psychology
- Depression & Mood Disorders
- Early Life Stress & Trauma
- Group Settings & Interactions
- Individual Differences
- Infant Development (6 months - 3 years)
- Language & Literacy
- Learning
- Mathematics & Numeracy
- Memory
- Motor Function
- Neurophysiology, Neural Mechanisms & Networks
- Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Organisational Psychology
- Resilience
- Sensory Perception (Vision, taste, hearing, speech)
- Sociality & Social Interaction
- Spatial Processing
- Speech (Processing & Production)
Latest news
Exciting new open access journal now accepting submissions
28 March 2019
Prof Kate Watkins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience is the inaugural co-Editor-in-Chief of a new open access journal: the Neurobiology of Language.
Is child abuse on the increase?
7 March 2019
New research from the University of Oxford has found that since the 1900s there has been a large overall decrease in child abuse – but, worryingly, that trend may now be reversing.
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