Baby Learning Lab

How babies learn and how this learning supports their development. @UBCPsych PI: @LLEmberson

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

New research study examining how the top-down perceptual modulation in infants, 10-13 months, is specific to own-race faces by @naiqixiao, Hila Ghersin, Natasha Dombrowski, Alexandra Boldin, and @LLEmberson. Work funded by @NIH, @JSMF, @NSERC_CRSNG.
https://t.co/nbH8gs2jOw

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

Two key limitations of fNIRS are anatomical co-registration and variation on channel placement across participants/ages. We present a scalp parcellation approach that connects these two and in the context of a longitudinal sample! Check it out.
https://t.co/kZm9daNJoc

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

We would just like to take the time to congratulate one of our graduate students, Zohreh Soleimani, on her huge accomplishment of successfully defending her master's thesis and progressing to her PhD! Fantastic job and we all look forward to the great things you do next! 🎉

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

We just wanted to take the time today to congratulate our principle investigator, Dr. Lauren Emberson, with her recent promotion to an Associate Professor with tenure here at the University of British Columbia! Congratulations @LLEmberson! 🥳

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

New research article published examining the top-down-modulated motion perception capabilities in 6-8 month year old infants by @naiqixiao and @LLEmberson. Work funded by the @NIH, the @JSMF, and the @NSERC_CRSNG.
https://t.co/5zQkCAk9YH

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

New mini paper published reviewing neuroimaging studies looking at infants' brains at play by @LLEmberson and @DopieralaOla. Work funded by the @JSMF and @gatesfoundation
https://t.co/9LcXKIo5MD

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

New paper published looking at lexical comprehension and anticipation/prediction abilities from 12-24 months: They're tightly linked. Work funded by the @JSMF and @NIH in collaboration with Tracy Reuter, @CarolynMazzei, Casey Lew-Williams, @LLEmberson
https://t.co/zY8JiYRtNi

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

New pre-print looking at the development of social perception networks in low- and middle-income infants. Work funded by the @gatesfoundation in collaboration with Sabrina Burr @LauraPirazzoli @DopieralaOla Vikranth Bejjanki @CharlesaNelson1 @LLEmberson
https://t.co/C8LIHVDggY

[Dr Ola Dopierala 🐝 @DopieralaOla]

Is it Christmas morning already? Unboxing the new fNIRS systems that’s just arrived at the @BabyLearningUBC - LUMO is here!

@LLEmberson @gowerlabs

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

Are you interested in talking to science profs at UBC, including our Director (@LLEmberson)? The @ubcneurosciclub is hosting an in-person event on November 25th from 6-8pm where you can do just that. Please see this link to RSVP: https://t.co/mp1QKALuck. The deadline is tomorrow!

[Lauren Emberson @LLEmberson]

Meta-analysis on attrition rates in infant fNIRS studies just ACCEPTED! 16-17 months from submission to acceptance. Not bad for COVID era review processes. Will tweet the final version.

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

@LLEmberson, was recently featured in a Member Spotlight with the @UBCLangScis! Please see this link: https://t.co/FnOQW6r4jH to read more about our wonderful director and the research we do at the lab! 🤗

[Lauren Emberson @LLEmberson]

Come and do your MA/PhD in the @BabyLearningUBC at @UBCPsych or @NeuroscienceUBC. We study the neuro-cognitive mechanisms that support infant learning and perception. We're doing some very naturalistic fNIRS studies and also plan to do neonatal/premie fNIRS. Please RT!

[Dr Ola Dopierala 🐝 @DopieralaOla]

Asking #Neurodevelopmental twitterverse for help!

At @BabyLearningUBC we are exploring new ways to learn about babies' brains and want to give them a Gadget Hat!

Any tips on how to integrate head cam with #fNIRS cap? What worked, what didn't work, what to pay attention to?

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

Interested in a broad overview of the current status of optical imaging of the human brain from a great large team of authors including our director, @LLEmberson? See this link for #Neurophotonics' special issue: https://t.co/zkFpFwPRnK 🧠😊

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

Our researchers Dr. Sabrina Burr and @DopieralaOla in action in Boston at #fNIRS2022 🥳. It's absolutely wonderful to see all of their hard work being celebrated and showcased! @SfNIRS

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

#fNIRS2022 is upon us! Our researcher, @DopieralaOla, will be virtually presenting in Gather Town tomorrow for @nirs2022! Please look out for her poster on 'Moving towards naturalistic infant fNIRS - a Pilot Study' to see the exciting things that have been brewing in the lab!

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

A huge congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Dopierala, on receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award at #ICIS2022 for her work completed at the University of Warsaw (@UniWarszawski). We are incredibly lucky and grateful to work with such a brilliant researcher!

[Baby Learning Lab @BabyLearningUBC]

We'll have a quiet week in the lab next week with our researchers, Dr. Sabrina Burr, Dr. Ola Dopierala and Zohreh Soleimani attending and presenting at ICIS 2022 (@Infantstudies)! We're excited to hear about all of the new findings in developmental psychology when they're back 😄

[Lauren Emberson @LLEmberson]

Big challenges for my area: understanding how these short-term learning effects give rise to longer-term developmental changes. And the crucial importance of returning to realities from an infant’s real-life input to guide our learning paradigms and theoretical questions. #IASL22