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Kelsey Frewin
@kelseyfrewin.bsky.social
Postdoc at UEA | Previously at Cardiff Uni | Language and conceptual dev in hearing and deaf infants 👶🧠 | LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 | Tea lover ☕ ❤️
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The BLoCKS team (PI: Prof Teodora Gliga, Dr Nadja Althaus, Barbara Zapior, Jade Archer & Dr Kelsey Frewin) at the 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 @lcicd.bsky.social, sharing their latest work on how babies learn object categories
www.gligalab.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Many updates to our psycholinguistic database page. You terrific people have been busy distributing open source data including lexical databases for BSL, French, German sign. LMK if I've missed anything www.reilly-coglab.com/data
Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
www.reilly-coglab.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤!
We joined a BSL lesson by the 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐟 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to celebrate! Learn more: signlanguageweek.org.uk
Curious about how language shapes learning? 𝐔𝐄𝐀’𝐬 𝐁𝐋𝐨𝐂𝐊𝐒 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. Check it out: www.gligalab.co.uk/conceptual-d...
March 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We had so much fun with our psych colleagues last week learning some basic BSL signs and how to better communicate with our Deaf friends and colleagues. Thanks British Deaf Association for putting on these amazing free lessons this #SignLanguageWeek signlanguageweek.org.uk
March 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Hardline atheists are more likely to see conflict between science and faith than religious people, a new study has found.

Research led by Dr Natalia Zarzeczna of Essex Psychology explored compatibility beliefs between atheists and religious people.

www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/03...
March 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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📢 We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for LCICD 2025! We will be joined by Karen Adolph, Diane Poulin-Dubois, and Judit Gervain.

Abstract submission is OPEN now. Submit: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/abstra...

#PsychSciSky
Thank you to sponsors @nirx-nirs.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A reminder about this PhD position in my lab #PhD #Psych #LanguageLearning deadline 📆 16th March. 🎓👛UK/home fees + UKRI-level stipend + research money. If you are passionate about the science behind language learning this is for🫵
PhD scholarship announcement 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p... Come and join my lab at U of Warwick. DM me for details and to discuss project ideas. Please RT!
February 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Come work in our amazing team of researchers trying to answer exciting questions about conceptual and language development, here in beautiful Norwich!
February 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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nice item-response analysis in this paper (plus open data):

word_comprehension ~ word_type + age*motor_score + (age + motor_score | word) + (word_type | child)
February 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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. @kelseyfrewin.bsky.social, Gerson, Vanderwert & @gambichiara.bsky.social (2024) measured parent-reported motor devt and word comprehension concurrently in 6-24mo infants: Motor ability was more tightly linked w/ verb comprehension than noun comprehension. #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Parent‐Reported Relations Between Vocabulary and Motor Development in Infancy: Differences Between Verbs and Nouns
During early development, increases in vocabulary are related to gains in motor ability, above and beyond the effects of maturation alone. However, little is known about the association between motor....
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM