Recent & Upcoming Talks

2024

Slow and steady wins the race? Consolidating new vocabulary in childhood and adulthood [Provisional title]

21 Nov, 2024 1:00 PM — 2:45 PM University of Cambridge
Project

The educational attainment and wellbeing of children with comprehension weaknesses

Some children have disproportional difficulties in understanding what they read. These children frequently have underlying oral …
11 Jul, 2024 9:30 AM — 10:30 AM Newcastle University
Project

Heterogeneity in children's reading comprehension difficulties: a latent class approach

26 Jan, 2024 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM Online
Project Video

2023

Who are the children with reading comprehension difficulties, and why does it matter?

6 Jun, 2023 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM PS/B/202, Department of Psychology, University of York
Project

Specific comprehension difficulties are very rarely specific: tales from experimental and data-driven approaches

According to the Simple View of Reading (Hoover & Gough, 1990), reading disorders can arise from difficulties in decoding letters …
8 Mar, 2023 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Room 534, Birkbeck
Project

2022

The reading difficulties of children with (even mild) language impairments

We most commonly think of reading disorders as difficulties with decoding written letters into words, as in dyslexia. Yet the ultimate …
16 Nov, 2022 1:15 PM — 17 Nov, 2022 5:00 PM Online
Project

A data-driven approach to understanding reading comprehension difficulties

OBJECTIVES: Some children struggle with reading comprehension despite success in decoding written words. Several studies indicate that …

14 Sep, 2022 9:00 AM — 16 Sep, 2022 12:30 PM Sheffield, UK
Emma James, Paul Thompson, Lucy Bowes, Kate Nation
Project

2021

Gorilla Presents... Speech Production Research Online

Panellist for discussion
29 Apr, 2021 8:00 PM — 9:00 PM Online

Word learning through the lens of prior knowledge

9th EPS Frith Prize Lecture
6 Jan, 2021 1:00 PM — 7 Jan, 2021 5:00 PM Online
Project Video

2020

It'll be alright on the night? Exploring bedtime benefits for vocabulary learning

UCL Language and Cognition Seminar
25 Nov, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Online

When the wabon flew to the intergalatic zoo: Accessing prior lexical knowledge in explicit and incidental word learning

Guest speaker at the Language, Learning, & Cognition Lab meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London.
4 Sep, 2020 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Online
Project

Learn, Sleep, Recall, Repeat

Talk for Memrise’s MemTalks series on the benefits of sleep for language learning.
26 Aug, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Online
Project

Sleep-associated consolidation in app-based language learning

Virtual poster presentation at the upcoming Cognitive Science Society meeting.
29 Jul, 2020 — 1 Aug, 2020 Online
Emma James, Yolanda Koutraki, Hannah Tickle
PDF Dataset Project Poster

A (half) marathon not a sprint: Preparing to conduct multi-session memory studies online

Talk at the BeOnline meeting for conducting behavioural studies online.
30 Jun, 2020 — Online
Video

Open research means open conversation

Talk at the University of York launch event for York Open Research.
25 Jun, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM Online
Video