Sam Wass
@profsamwass.bsky.social
👶👨⚕️Child Psychologist/Neuroscientist🧠, attention and stress, 👨👩👧👦Dad of 2, 💻 @ERC_Research Fellow.
Those are just SOME of the reasons why sharing books is GREAT for young children’s brain development!
Full report here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOry...
Full report here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOry...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Those are just SOME of the reasons why sharing books is GREAT for young children’s brain development!
Full report here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOry...
Full report here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/rea...
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOry...
Structure: The frontal cortex, which helps join separate experiences into coherent goals, is slow to develop. Stories have structure. Regular story-telling may help to learn to understand about predictability and structure helping to learn to set goals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Structure: The frontal cortex, which helps join separate experiences into coherent goals, is slow to develop. Stories have structure. Regular story-telling may help to learn to understand about predictability and structure helping to learn to set goals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clarity: Hyper-articulating speech sounds
by exaggerating mouth movements helps young children to hear the differences between words. It also helps if your child can see your mouth while you’re talking. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x
by exaggerating mouth movements helps young children to hear the differences between words. It also helps if your child can see your mouth while you’re talking. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Clarity: Hyper-articulating speech sounds
by exaggerating mouth movements helps young children to hear the differences between words. It also helps if your child can see your mouth while you’re talking. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x
by exaggerating mouth movements helps young children to hear the differences between words. It also helps if your child can see your mouth while you’re talking. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x
Rhythm: giving language input with a strong
rhythmic structure can help to nudge a child’s brain rhythms, which naturally are more irregular, into more stable adult-like rhythms, which helps language processing. doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...
rhythmic structure can help to nudge a child’s brain rhythms, which naturally are more irregular, into more stable adult-like rhythms, which helps language processing. doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Rhythm: giving language input with a strong
rhythmic structure can help to nudge a child’s brain rhythms, which naturally are more irregular, into more stable adult-like rhythms, which helps language processing. doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...
rhythmic structure can help to nudge a child’s brain rhythms, which naturally are more irregular, into more stable adult-like rhythms, which helps language processing. doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...
Responsiveness: because children’s brains are messy, sometimes they’re ready for new information and sometimes they’re not. Waiting for them to initiate –by asking, looking or pointing – helps you to be sure that new info arrives when their brain is ready. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Responsiveness: because children’s brains are messy, sometimes they’re ready for new information and sometimes they’re not. Waiting for them to initiate –by asking, looking or pointing – helps you to be sure that new info arrives when their brain is ready. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Repetition: young brains are messy and overconnected. When they want to read the same book over and over, or look at the same picture – go with it! Doing things repeatedly helps to ‘practice’ understanding something, which builds stronger brain networks. t.co/wssvev7XXG
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Repetition: young brains are messy and overconnected. When they want to read the same book over and over, or look at the same picture – go with it! Doing things repeatedly helps to ‘practice’ understanding something, which builds stronger brain networks. t.co/wssvev7XXG
To support the launch of
@booktrust.org.uk's Reading Rights report today with
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, here are six neuroscience-informed tips for sharing books with young children 👇
@booktrust.org.uk's Reading Rights report today with
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, here are six neuroscience-informed tips for sharing books with young children 👇
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
To support the launch of
@booktrust.org.uk's Reading Rights report today with
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, here are six neuroscience-informed tips for sharing books with young children 👇
@booktrust.org.uk's Reading Rights report today with
@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, here are six neuroscience-informed tips for sharing books with young children 👇
Just out 📣 in @JEnvPsych- 'Differential Effects Of An Urban Outdoor Environment On 4-5 Year Old Children’s Attention In School' - with @GemmaGoldenberg, Molly Atkinson,
@jan_dubiel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@jan_dubiel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just out 📣 in @JEnvPsych- 'Differential Effects Of An Urban Outdoor Environment On 4-5 Year Old Children’s Attention In School' - with @GemmaGoldenberg, Molly Atkinson,
@jan_dubiel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@jan_dubiel
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When it comes to early years screen media – how fast-paced is TOO fast? Just heard 🎉🍾🍾 we got funding from
@LeverhulmeTrust for new project measuring how young brains respond to screen media in real time. With @JuliaDavidson13, Rachel Barr,
@jessen_sarah, @MarriottIra, PLabendzki
@LeverhulmeTrust for new project measuring how young brains respond to screen media in real time. With @JuliaDavidson13, Rachel Barr,
@jessen_sarah, @MarriottIra, PLabendzki
March 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When it comes to early years screen media – how fast-paced is TOO fast? Just heard 🎉🍾🍾 we got funding from
@LeverhulmeTrust for new project measuring how young brains respond to screen media in real time. With @JuliaDavidson13, Rachel Barr,
@jessen_sarah, @MarriottIra, PLabendzki
@LeverhulmeTrust for new project measuring how young brains respond to screen media in real time. With @JuliaDavidson13, Rachel Barr,
@jessen_sarah, @MarriottIra, PLabendzki
Theta activity, often treated as a marker of engagement/attention (in our previous papers and tonnes others!) now suddenly looks like sum of transient fixation-related P1/N170 components. Eg data sections where no FRPs present show strongly attenuated oscillatory activity. 6/8
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Theta activity, often treated as a marker of engagement/attention (in our previous papers and tonnes others!) now suddenly looks like sum of transient fixation-related P1/N170 components. Eg data sections where no FRPs present show strongly attenuated oscillatory activity. 6/8
They are slower, which may drive developmental differences in frequency domain observed in previous resting state studies. FRPs also differentiate between social/non-social contexts, which may drive previously observed differences in frequency domain activity between contexts 5/8
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
They are slower, which may drive developmental differences in frequency domain observed in previous resting state studies. FRPs also differentiate between social/non-social contexts, which may drive previously observed differences in frequency domain activity between contexts 5/8
These fixation-related potentials (FRPs) look very different in children compared with adults – more specific to particular frequency bands, etc – but a lot like evoked response potentials seen in passive, event-related paradigms. 4/8
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
These fixation-related potentials (FRPs) look very different in children compared with adults – more specific to particular frequency bands, etc – but a lot like evoked response potentials seen in passive, event-related paradigms. 4/8
Using co-registered eyetracking and EEG in 24-month-olds and adults we look at transient increases in cortical excitability time-locked to eye movements (~3/sec). We can clearly separate eye movement-related artifact and genuine neural activity linked to offset of saccade 3/8
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Using co-registered eyetracking and EEG in 24-month-olds and adults we look at transient increases in cortical excitability time-locked to eye movements (~3/sec). We can clearly separate eye movement-related artifact and genuine neural activity linked to offset of saccade 3/8
Are brain states in children passively generated in response to things that happen in our environment? Or are they actively created through micro-level movements? Big questions in latest pre-preprint from @MarriottIra that re-examines developmental EEG findings 👇 1/8
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Are brain states in children passively generated in response to things that happen in our environment? Or are they actively created through micro-level movements? Big questions in latest pre-preprint from @MarriottIra that re-examines developmental EEG findings 👇 1/8
New preprint - 'From salience to semantics: multilevel hierarchical contingencies organise parent-infant joint attention' by Pierre Labendzki, @martaperapoch
with Louise Goupil, @EmilyDevNeuro and team from
@UEL_BabyDevLab
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26638.47686
with Louise Goupil, @EmilyDevNeuro and team from
@UEL_BabyDevLab
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26638.47686
March 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
New preprint - 'From salience to semantics: multilevel hierarchical contingencies organise parent-infant joint attention' by Pierre Labendzki, @martaperapoch
with Louise Goupil, @EmilyDevNeuro and team from
@UEL_BabyDevLab
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26638.47686
with Louise Goupil, @EmilyDevNeuro and team from
@UEL_BabyDevLab
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26638.47686
The neuroscience of 'I want NORMAL chicken!!' Article for Nursery World on why toddlers love predictability.
www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
January 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The neuroscience of 'I want NORMAL chicken!!' Article for Nursery World on why toddlers love predictability.
www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
📣Just out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! @ELSneuroscience - 'Foraging and inertia: Understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention' with @martaperapoch, Tom Northrop, @MarriottIra, @EmilyAPhillips www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📣Just out in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! @ELSneuroscience - 'Foraging and inertia: Understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention' with @martaperapoch, Tom Northrop, @MarriottIra, @EmilyAPhillips www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Home is where the start is: a world of possibilities
Free @EYAlliance sessions for parents of 0-5s
Thurs 13 Feb to Sat 15 Feb
www.familycorner.co.uk/home-where-s...
Free @EYAlliance sessions for parents of 0-5s
Thurs 13 Feb to Sat 15 Feb
www.familycorner.co.uk/home-where-s...
January 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Home is where the start is: a world of possibilities
Free @EYAlliance sessions for parents of 0-5s
Thurs 13 Feb to Sat 15 Feb
www.familycorner.co.uk/home-where-s...
Free @EYAlliance sessions for parents of 0-5s
Thurs 13 Feb to Sat 15 Feb
www.familycorner.co.uk/home-where-s...
Just out 🎉 at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social - 'Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development' with Katie Lancaster www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
December 26, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Just out 🎉 at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social - 'Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development' with Katie Lancaster www.cell.com/trends/cogni...