Today we held our first stakeholder panel meeting for our Economic and Social Research Council funded project on strategy training to support healthy cognitive ageing - great input & feedback! 🙏u3a Scotland SOPA - The Scottish Older People's Assembly @campbellgerardd Rebecca Hart Richard Allen Melanie Burke Claudia von Bastian Mario A Parra

Our new research showing that outcomes from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile conducted at 4-5 years of age predicts Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) status at 16-17 years of age #EYFSP #NEET

🥳🍾🥳Big congrats, Christ B. A., so very well done!! 💖🥳💖 It was such great fun & indeed inspiring to work with you, Dr Emma Blakey & Renee Timmers on music making and executive functions! 🎶 Big thanks also to César Lima, @vmloaiza1 & Clare Howarth for being amazing examiners!💖

Well done to Gerard Campbell for presenting our approach and validation study for our newly developed visual stimulus set 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 University of Strathclyde Psychology Richard Allen Claudia von Bastian Mario A Parra Melanie Burke Graeme Nicholls 🌟

Many great talks today at #ICWM2024 #ICWM Claudia von Bastian Susanne M. Jaeggi & Susan Gathercole 👏 👏

The 4th International Conference on Working Memory #ICWM #ICWM2024 is over, but the euphoria has not ended yet! Yesterday’s highlight: Graham Hitch and Alan Baddeley talks! Who would’ve thought I would meet the researchers I studied during my undergrad cognitive psychology class?

Group shot of most of the attendees (missing some people though).

Had a fantastic time at The 4th International Conference on Working Memory #ICWM2024 at University of Leeds where I presented my work on Hebb-repetition learning in #FPS players. Don't worry if you missed it, PDF below!

📢CS2 players needed for research🧠 Complete a 25-30 minute online task and questionnaire to be entered into a prize draw for an #AmazonGiftCard 💸 Read more and take part here: sheffieldpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e4… #CounterStrike #CounterStrike2 #CS2 #CS2Giveaway #CSGO

Really fond memories of a great day with Eleanor Hyde (she/her) at the Sheffield United Community Foundation, meeting Russ / Kaph, James Sellars, and a great cohort of eSports students!

Huge congrats to 🌟💫Dr Hakan Atis! 💫🌟 So very happy for you!🥳🎉🎊 What an feat, especially after a very tough start in 2020 (yep, *that* year!). You can be extremely proud of your journey and achievement - we at the CAPLab definitely all are! Go, Hakan! 🥳🎉🙌🙌

You can still take part in our CS2 research 🎮If you've got 25-30 minutes to spare we'd appreciate your participation. You'll also be entered into a prize draw! 💰 #counterstrike2 #esports Endpoint CeX Sheffield Uni Gaming Society SHSU Esports National Student Esports FACEIT Esports News UK

It’s a great honour to have contributed to Michael Mosley’s Wonders of the Human Body. I got to join in this wonderful dance class and discuss keeping active physically, mentally and socially into older age 🧠 💃🏼 🕺🏻 StrathAgeingNetwork University of Strathclyde Psychology

Recruiting participants aged 18-35 and 65-85 for research into memory and ageing. Please contact me if you are interested in taking part. Please retweet and share with others! 🧠🙏 Louise Brown Nicholls University of Strathclyde Psychology Strathclyde PSH StrathAgeingNetwork

Excited to share our article out this week in Society for Research in Child Development led by the brilliant Ella James-Brabham as part of her PhD & Claudia von Bastian and Carmel. A real labour of love examining via meta-analysis the relation between home activities & children’s maths skills srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Excited to share our meta-analysis on home maths activities and children's maths skills is published in Society for Research in Child Development! It’s been an amazing project with Dr Emma Blakey, Claudia von Bastian, and Carmel Brough. I’m thrilled to share our key recommendations for the field🧵 shorturl.at/tgMLH

Super excited about this collaborative symposium to take place at ESCOP 2025 here The University of Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield 🥳🥳🥳

📣Please share! We are recruiting a 1-yr neuroimaging postdoc University of Leeds for our Economic and Social Research Council-funded project on strategies to support healthy cognitive ageing, working with Melanie Burke, Richard Allen, Claudia von Bastian, Mario A Parra, and me! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Back in 2023 we worked with The University of Sheffield Claudia von Bastian Eleanor Hyde (she/her) on their research into Counter-Strike 🧠 Check out their video "The Psychology of Counter-Strike":