Amy Atkinson

Lecturer at @LancasterUni, interested in working memory and children's cognitive development. Views my own. She/her.

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

The SEND system is not working effectively, which is having devastating impacts on the lives of children, young people, and their families.

Proud to have co-led this report with Uta Papen, which includes key shortcomings with the current system and a number of recommendations.

[Child of the North @ChildoftheNort1]

A report launched today by Child of the North - led by @n8research, @_henorth and @annelongfield’s @Cfyounglives - urges the new government to focus on early identification and support of children with #SEND https://t.co/pmzK7Aex6s

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

@sacairney @ERC_Research @YorkPsychology Amazing news @sacairney - congratulations!

[Richard Allen @richjallen]

Running after Two Hares in Visual Working Memory: Exploring Retrospective Attention to Multiple Items Using Simulation, Behavioral Outcomes, and Eye-tracking

New work with Taiji Ueno, coming out soon in JEPHPP.

https://t.co/54c44jHbaY

[Richard Allen @richjallen]

New post doc position available with us at Leeds, on our ESRC-funded project exploring working memory & cognitive ageing, using behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and fNIRS! https://t.co/R7qQGqV3pF
Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

[Dr Helen Nuttall @hel_nuttall]

‼️Closing Sept 30th ‼️ Lecturer/Senior Lecturer job! Seeking a new colleague with expertise in human neuroscience to join our awesome psych dept @LancasterUni. Strategic post to develop our neuro research - get in touch for a chat! Pls RT!

https://t.co/feu9wc9jXZ

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

@richjallen @_haticecinar @Asiyah222 Congratulations @_haticecinar & @Asiyah222 :)

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

@vmloaiza1 So pleased for you @vmloaiza1, but we will miss you over here in the UK. Hope to still see you at conferences :)

[Dr Rebecca Gordon @DrRebeccaGordon]

Our Nuffield funded MetaSENse toolkit is now live. What interventions work for which SEND groups, & barriers teachers face in accessing them. The toolkit:
https://t.co/WZ3BJUQqM6
@JoVanHerwegen @mscthom @CAntalekPhD Thomas Masterson @ChloeRuMarshall Julie Dockrell @UCL_IOE_PHD

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

@DrRebeccaGordon @JoVanHerwegen @mscthom @CAntalekPhD @ChloeRuMarshall @UCL_IOE_PHD I was actually reading about this yesterday on the Nuffield site. Looks great :)

[Richard Allen @richjallen]

Our paper on accelerated forgetting in epilepsy is now out and online at Cortex.
With @Amy__Atkinson, @katapauly, @DrCMGoodridge, Steven Kemp, Sarah Martin, & Alan Baddeley.

https://t.co/Xa9G3uR8b1

[Prof Catherine Davies @Cat_Davies]

@BBCNews TV coverage of our @BICYCLE_Study to support children born during the first year of the pandemic as they start primary school this week. @botting_nikki @ProfLHenry @CityLCS @UniversityLeeds @ElizabethSelby @SpeechAndLangUK @Clarkevanessa
https://t.co/h3mCAlv97q

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

@AbiFiske @LancasterUni @lancspsychres Looking forward to meeting you and welcoming you to the department @AbiFiske 😊

[Kristy Armitage @kristyarmitage]

New paper available online in Memory and Cognition! We explored social offloading (i.e., the leveraging of other agents in the social world to facilitate cognitive performance) among adults using a novel visuospatial working memory task. Check it out here: https://t.co/3OkI4KvKzz

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

Taken together, these experiments provide consistent evidence that adults with symptoms of ADHD are as able to prioritise particularly valuable information in working memory as controls.

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

** New preprint**

Here we investigate whether adults with symptoms of ADHD are as able to prioritise information in working memory as control participants: https://t.co/hcgXX0U02U

with Beatriz Pinheiro Sanchez, @m_warb, Heather Allmark & @richjallen

A thread 🧵:

#WMinpress

[Amy Atkinson @Amy__Atkinson]

Similar findings were found in Experiment 2, when no trial-by-trial feedback was presented, and also in analyses across experiments, and a number of follow-up analyses.