[By: Lisanne Schröer]
When you grab your keys to go to work in the morning, or when you make a grocery list, which hand do you use? Simple tasks in our daily life like these involve an important aspect of motor planning: hand preference.
Read moreWhen do you know whether your baby is right- or left-handed?
[By: Linda]
In this blog post, I thought it would be nice to look back at the past six months. It has been a hectic but fun time. Every day I was lucky enough to work with cute little three-month-old infants. Although there were moments that were not as much fun, such as smelling like baby spit up almost every single day, I really enjoyed the testing period.
[By: Iara de Almeida]
This is July 2019. By now all of us ESR’s have been PhD candidates at our universities for 9 months, we are at the brink of our careers. One foot in, but still rubbing our eyes to make sure it is indeed true. All is new and wonderful. Every setback is a challenge to be conquered. But, when the day ends and the “dragons” of MATLAB or Python or Experimental Design are put down and work to our advantage, who are we but just a couple of young adults – kids, let’s face it – trying to make it in Research. This idea of balance has troubled me since the start.
[By: Aude Carteron]
Do you also find yourself surprised when meeting someone who hates tomatoes or chocolate, and then shrug it off with a ‘well, that’s rare but there’s no accounting for taste’? Some weeks ago I decided to put on an apron and… use my favourite search engine to figure out ‘What makes us like… what we like’, and how it sheds light on why some parenting advice works better than other.
[By: Sayaka Fujita]
If you have spent time with a young baby, you probably know how babies are good at “staring”. When your baby looks into your eyes, you would probably look straight back into your baby’s eyes, smiling – making direct eye contact with them. Have you ever wondered – why they stare at you so much, and what happens in your baby’s brain when you look into your baby’s eyes?
[By: Victoria Licht]
In this blog series we have heard from almost all the ESRs, talking about the challenges we encountered in our research and the progress we have made the last 7 months. While all of us have moved from different countries to be at our present university, some of us have had minimal problems adjusting to our new city and others like myself needed some time to get use to our new home.
[By: Chiara Capparini]
As you may already know, the MOTION network is made up by a diverse team of experts and early stage researchers mixing both academic and industrial expertise. In this blog post, I am going to discuss with you my really fresh experience developing collaboration between my host University, Lancaster University, and an industrial partner, Smart Eye.
Read moreDeveloping collaborations between academia and industry
[By: Clément Dardenne]
In the last couple of months, I worked on the development of a new version of our eye tracking software, adapted to the head morphology and eyes anatomy of infants (6 months – 3 years old).
Read moreCollaboration between Smart Eye and Lancaster University
[By: Umay Şen]
The second meeting of Motion Network (Mobile Technology for Infant Social-Cognitive Neuroscience: Interdisciplinary Training Network for Innovating Infancy Research) took place in Oldenzaal, Netherlands. In this meeting, there were various workshops regarding the interaction of research and industry. As the early stage researchers of the network, we have strong connections with both industry and academia. This provides the opportunity to get involved with them both now and also in future.
Read moreOn the Intersection of Two Companions for Ecological Validity: Research and Industry
[By: Joanna Rutkowska]
This month TMSi kindly ho sted our project check meeting and the third training school in Oldenzaal, the Netherlands.