Who we are

Top row: Gemma Taylor, Danielle Matthews, Ciara Kelly. Middle Row: Gemma Stephens, Dan Carroll and Jane Herbert. Bottom row: Lily FitzGibbon, Michelle McGillion , Emma Blakey.

Name	Research Interests
Jane Herbert	The development of learning and memory during infancy and early childhood. Age-related changes in the retention of early memories and the transfer of knowledge to new situations. The effectiveness of books and television as sources of real-life information for young children.
Dan Carroll	Executive function and inhibitory control in preschool children; Children’s rule use and symbolic understanding; Conflict monitoring and conflict resolution.
Danielle Matthews	Language Development. Communication skills in preschoolers. Pointing gestures in infancy. Bilingual language learning. Statistical learning of grammar. Social Cognition and its relation to language.
Rod Nicolson	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience including event related potential and modelling of developmental and its disorders. Cerebellum, cognition and skill.
Mark Blades	Assessment of police interviews with abused children, children’s eyewitness testimony and children's suggestibility during questioning. Children’s understanding of media, in particular their understanding of advertising and marketing.
Richard Rowe	The development of antisocial behaviour. Unintentional injury: Psychological risk factors for accidents in children and adolescents, driver behaviour.
Liz Milne	Developmental cognitive neuroscience. Visual perception in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (using techniques such as psychophysical threshold measurement & EEG). The relationship between perceptual abnormalities in autism and atypical cognitive profiles.
Michael Siegal	Language and conceptual development; Memory and eyewitness testimony of children in legal and health settings; Development of language and communication; Autism; Deafness; Representation and theory of mind; Children's understanding of biology and cosmology; Spatial and mathematical ability in adults with aphasia.
Chris Eiser	The psychological effects of chronic and life-threatening illness on children and their families; interventions to improve compliance and quality of life in diabetes; children’s understanding of health and illness; men’s attitudes towards health and health care; quality of life and response shift.