The Miss­ing Mil­lions: How Super­mar­kets are Acci­den­tal­ly Giv­ing Away Millions

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

Gareth Har­vey — DECIDE @garethjharvey Gareth shares some of the research he does into prod­uct pric­ing in super­mar­kets and restau­rants, and explains why big­ger dis­counts aren’t always the best way to get more purchases. https://youtu.be/8h110Ee8528 Share on...

Do dif­fer­ences in work­ing mem­o­ry and exec­u­tive func­tion­ing affect the use of Stan­dard Eng­lish in work­ing-class children’s speech?

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

https://youtu.be/rHTsCxgJYKA Katie Mans­field — Uni­ver­si­ty of Sheffield @katiemanssheff This talk will briefly out­line the research project I am cur­rent­ly under­tak­ing, which seeks to explore the cog­ni­tive dimen­sion of work­ing-class children’s lin­guis­tic...

Tap­ping into Tablet Tots and Mid­dleschool Minecrafters: Test­ing chil­dren online using Ani­mal-AI and Goril­la Game Builder

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

Lucy Cheke — Uni­ver­si­ty of Cambridge @lucycheke In our lab we’ve been mov­ing recent­ly to both online and gam­i­fied ways of test­ing cog­ni­tion in chil­dren. its ear­ly days, but in this talk I will share progress so far using two plat­forms: Goril­la Game...

Select­ing for the high­est qual­i­ty and most engaged participants

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Abstracts 2022

Andrew Gor­don — Prolific In this talk we will be dis­cussing the var­i­ous meth­ods used by Pro­lif­ic to man­age its par­tic­i­pant pool in order to ensure that all of the par­tic­i­pants are of the high­est pos­si­ble qual­i­ty. This includes a dis­cus­sion of how...

Social Offload­ing: Using online meth­ods to inves­ti­gate social­ly embed­ded dis­trac­tor suppression

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

https://youtu.be/DhYJmnLLRig Dr Miles Tufft — UCL Behav­iours and their asso­ci­at­ed cog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms do not exist in iso­la­tion, rather they are embed­ded in a world that is nat­u­ral­ly social, and rich in con­text. By exper­i­men­tal­ly recre­at­ing...

Is it eas­i­er to use one lan­guage vari­ety at a time or mix them? An online vol­un­tary lan­guage switch­ing study with “bidi­alec­tals”

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

https://youtu.be/RVqK3sD3AXo Dr Neil W. Kirk — Aber­tay University @DrNeilKirk Pre­vi­ous lan­guage switch­ing stud­ies with “bidi­alec­tal” speak­ers of close­ly relat­ed lan­guage vari­eties has revealed evi­dence for very sim­i­lar lan­guage con­trol process­es as...

The role of intrin­sic reward in ado­les­cent word learning

by Jamie Adams | Jun 24, 2022 | Videos, Videos 2022

https://youtu.be/8Y31Eni45e4 Dr Saloni Krish­nan — Roy­al Hol­loway, Uni­ver­si­ty of London @salonikrishnan We con­stant­ly learn words from con­text, even in the absence of explic­it rewards or feed­back. In adults, intrin­sic reward expe­ri­enced dur­ing word...