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Lizzie Watson
@elizabethwatson.bsky.social
PhD student at UEA researching scene processing in children
EEG technician
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Hello 👋 my name is Lizzie Watson I'm a psychology researcher interested in:
- Childhood Development
- Scene Categorisation
- Neuroimaging
I'm also a lab technician at UEA helping to run EEG, fMRI and eye tracking studies 👀🧠
Looking forward to presenting my poster at #BACN25 later today! Please stop by to chat about how our brains represent scenes of different categories
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🧠✨ 7-year-olds needed?
UEA PhD student Lizzie Watson is running an exciting EEG study to see how children’s brains respond to pictures of different places

📍 UEA, Norwich
⏱ 1 session (max 1 hr 25 mins)
💷 £15 book voucher + small toy
🚗 Travel reimbursed

📩 lizzie.watson@uea.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Having a great time talking to little scientists about MRI and EEG today! 🧠 @ddpsyuea.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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New study for parents of deaf children at @psychologyuea.bsky.social - please share!
July 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐩
Our student-led video series highlighting the latest in science at the 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, UEA!

We interviewed 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 about her latest work: "When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation."

Full article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Really enjoyed tonight's pint of science talks in Norwich, about NMR and ferrofluids - very cool! 🧲🍩 #pint25
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New paper alert! (and the first from my PhD 🥳)
With @glmalcolm.bsky.social and Louise Ewing

When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation is now available in Vision Research

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Very excited to see Kristina's brilliant work on interpersonal distance published 👀🧠 Such a cool and out there EEG set up! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression
Abstract. Interpersonal space is regulated carefully and updated dynamically during social interactions to maintain comfort. We investigated the naturalist
academic.oup.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Some holiday reading for developmental folks - our latest in The Conversation @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/why-theres-n...
Why there’s no such thing as normal in child development
One of the tricky things about researching child development is that it occurs within a cultural and social context.
theconversation.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities?

We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :)

By @aalcorn.bsky.social, @katiecebula.bsky.social, @suereviews.bsky.social and me.

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Neurodiversity Can Explain Differences in How People Experience Everyday Life
Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a pe...
kids.frontiersin.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Hello 👋 my name is Lizzie Watson I'm a psychology researcher interested in:
- Childhood Development
- Scene Categorisation
- Neuroimaging
I'm also a lab technician at UEA helping to run EEG, fMRI and eye tracking studies 👀🧠
November 14, 2024 at 9:12 AM