Merry Christmas from the Bristol University Baby Lab! 🎅🎄 The lab will be closed until Wednesday 3rd January, to give all our scientists a well deserved break! We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and we are looking forward to more testing and fun in the lab in 2024! ⭐

We are still recruiting families to take part in the LEAF study! If your child will be 10 months old between April 2024 and August 2024, and you would like to take part or find out more about the study, please complete this expression of interest form: redcap.link/2zhauzjuto

Meet Asha!🤩 Asha joined the team in September and is another one of our brilliant placement students! Asha is currently studying Psychology at the University of Bath. Outside the Lab, Asha enjoys singing, playing the piano, travelling, trying new foods, fashion, and gaming!🎹🎮

Calling all parents of children aged 5 to 13!🚨 Our colleagues at the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre are conducting an online research study on self-regulation. Click here to find out more: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6r… #DevelopmentalResearch #ResearchOpportunity #OnlineStudy

Please share this advert with anyone you know who might be interested in participating. The study is open to anyone who lives in the UK, is fluent in English, and has a child aged 5 to 13. Thank you! 😀

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Abigail Fiske, Karla Holmboe, et al: The neural correlates of response inhibition across the transition from infancy to toddlerhood: An fNIRS study doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

New study by our Bristol University Baby Lab - BUBL University of Oxford researchers reveals toddlers' brains show significant growth in cognitive skills by 16 mths!🧠 Findings show increased brain activity helps toddlers follow instructions & control impulses.👶#ChildDevelopment➡️brnw.ch/21wLeFr

A great summary of our most recent work on what happens in toddlers' brains when they have to stop themselves from doing something (inhibitory control) - with Abi Fiske, Bristol University Baby Lab - BUBL and Oxford BabyLab bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/july…

Last month, BUBL PhD Candidate Bethany Biggs presented a poster at #ICIS2024 on some of the work she is doing looking at maternal depressive symptom trajectories and early childhood inhibitory control development. (Full abstract at infantstudies.org/2024-Congress/)

New Baby Blog post by Abi Fiske: How do babies and toddlers develop inhibitory control? #infantstudies #Research infantstudies.org/how-do-babies-…

We published this paper recently on concurrent and longitudinal associations between touchscreen use and executive functions at preschool-age. Enjoy! :-) frontiersin.org/journals/devel…