Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
- Reminder about a couple of free online R tutorials for beginners by Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJs...
- Fascinating article about men’s mental health, by Dr Stephen Blumenthal www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- In Cambridge in the 1970s, my dad, Colin Blakemore, worked and lectured on sensitive periods of sensory development. In my Cambridge undergrad lectures on this topic, I show a clip from one of his TV shows, which describes sensitive periods for sound categorisation, and features Prof Janet Werker:
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- Yes, there‘s lots of research showing that it’s easier to learn a second language the earlier a child is exposed to it
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- For sound categorisation yes, with some relearning possible with specific irl training - see paper below My dad presented a BBC series called The Mind Machine in the 1980S pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12861072/
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- I know! He would love the symmetry
