Happy Volunteers’ Week! 💙 A massive thank you to all the volunteers who have supported the Cardiff Babylab over the years. Your time, enthusiasm and dedication is invaluable to our research and we are really grateful for all you do!
As part of our Towards Complexity Seminar Series, we are delighted to advertise Complexity & Cake, a free, relaxed mini-conference taking place in Cardiff, UK.
Register by 1st June 2026 to attend and, if you would like, submit a poster! Click the link to register: tinyurl.com/3ema8xzn
This month is William’s Syndrome awareness month! ❤️💙
Be sure to check out the brilliant work that organisations such as William’s Syndrome Foundation UK do to fundraise and raise awareness for the condition.
#williamssyndromeawarenessmonth #williamssyndrome #shareyourheart
☀️ SUMMER 2026 CAMPS ARE HERE! ☀️
We are thrilled to announce that registration is officially open for the 21 Plus SALT Camps this summer! 🎉
If you are interested in attending, follow this link:
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Congratulations to @teodorynikolov.bsky.social and Dr Hana D’Souza for their recent publication in Developmental Science ‘Making Machine Learning Accessible for Developmental Science: The Case of Automated Face Detection’. 🎉
Read more at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Last Thursday the Babylab attended a talk by Mitzi, one of our visiting PhD students!
📖 The talk explored how linguistic anticipation and rhythm intertwine to shape real-time comprehension, and how this reveals key differences between typical development and Down syndrome.
On the 15th of June, NHS Wales will be holding an accessible online talk about how we can keep our brains healthy! 🧠
link to sign up: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Resources used in this post are from NHS Wales and are credited to them.
The next speaker in our Towards Complexity Seminar Series is Antonio Monaco from Indiana University. We are very excited to listen to his talk titled ‘Emergence in Complex Adaptive Symptoms!’
Join us on 4th June at 1pm in the Psychology Tower Building at Cardiff University!
Last Thursday, Yueyan, one of our visiting PhD students, gave a brilliant talk about her PhD research in preparation for her defence.
Her research explores how babies and caregivers learn to share attention in everyday life using wearable devices and machine learning.
New paper alert!
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Our BabylabPAN & @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social asked how do 9 mo infants interact with objects during lab-based play with their caregivers when no one places them in predefined body positions or hands them objects to manipulate? 1/2
