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Women in AcademiaAndrea Sander-Montant, M.A. student at Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaToday it's great to have Andrea Sander-Montant on the podcast. Andrea is an M.A. student at Concordia University in Montreal Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein at the Infant Research Lab. Andrea is interested in developmental psychology with a special focus on early language development and bilingualism. Listen to this episode to hear more on how being raised in bilingual family influenced Andrea's exciting research on bilingualism as well as Andrea's great insights on the culture of Academia, with the specific focus on the female researchers' place in that. Time stamps:[00:45] Andrea's i...
2020-10-1925 minWomen in AcademiaDr Monica Barbir, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)Today it's great to have Dr Monica Barbir on the podcast. Dr Barbir is the Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) BabyLab, University of Tokyo. She is interested in the cognitive mechanisms that make learning language easy for babies but hard for adults. Her goal is to innovate novel language learning methods that would ultimately allow adults to learn language as well as babies. Dr Barbir studied language acquisition at the University of Toronto and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, taught English as a foreign language with the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme, and designed n...
2020-09-1634 minWomen in AcademiaDr Celia Harris, the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney UniversityToday it's great to have Dr Celia Harris on the podcast. Dr Harris is the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, based at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University. She completed her PhD at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, in 2010. In her PhD research, she studied ways of extending laboratory paradigms to study social aspects of memory in ecologically valid ways. Dr Harris's research focuses broadly on memory, and particularly on autobiographical memory - memory for life events. She is interested in how memory retrieval can be supported by...
2020-09-0716 minWomen in AcademiaDr Jovana Pejovic, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab, PortugalToday it's great to have Dr Jovana Pejovic on the podcast. Dr Pejovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab. She completed her PhD studies in 2019 at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain, with a thesis on the development of audiovisual speech processing in monolingual and bilingual infants. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Pejovic's research journey, her research on the audiovisual speech processing in infants, and on the challenges that female researchers face in Academia.Time stamps:[00:48] Dr Pejovic's introduction
2020-08-3116 minWomen in AcademiaDr Ruth Brookman, Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney UniversityToday it's great to have Dr Ruth Brookman on the podcast. Dr Brookman is an Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Technology and Ageing at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. She recently completed her PhD at the MARCS, examining depression and anxiety in the postnatal period with specific focus on the examination of maternal speech, the mother-infant interaction and infant developmental outcomes. The overall aim of this research was to examine the speech of depressed and anxious mothers to determine the effects upon infant attachment and developmental outcomes over time. This has clinical implications...
2020-08-2428 minWomen in AcademiaDr Marieke van Heugten, Assistant Professor and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the University at Buffalo, USAToday it's great to have Dr Marieke van Heugten on the podcast. Dr van Heugten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Director of the Buffalo BabyLab at the at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She completed her B.A. and M.Sc. at Radboud University in the Netherlands before moving to Canada where she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She then held a postdoctoral position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. In August 2015 she started her position at the University at Buffalo. Dr van H...
2020-08-1712 minWomen in AcademiaDr Sabrina Thurman, Assistant Professor and Director of the Infant Development Lab at Elon University, USAToday it's great to have Dr Sabrina Thurman on the podcast. Dr Thurman is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Elon University and Director of the Infant Development Lab. She received her B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr Thurman studies how infants acquire new motor skills, postures, and forms of locomotion, and how infants learn to use their bodies for manipulation and exploration of their environments. She is interested in the role of caregivers in...
2020-08-1020 minWomen in AcademiaDr Julie Beadle on Research Journey from Canada to Australia and on the Exciting Research in the Field of Cognitive Hearing ScienceToday it's great to have Dr Julie Beadle on the podcast. Dr Beadle has completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Her PhD thesis was focused on cognitive ageing and hearing under difficult circumstances. Specifically, she investigated how cognitive processes such as attention and memory are used when the elderly try to perceive speech in difficult listening circumstances, as well as how and when visual cues may aid understanding. Currently, Dr Beadle is Postdoctoral Researcher at Macquarie University, where she continues her research in Ageing and Hearing Loss. Listen to this...
2020-08-0322 minWomen in AcademiaStacey Sherwood on Academia, Research, and How to Write Sci-fi Novels while Doing a PhDToday it's great to have Stacey Sherwood on the podcast. Stacey has now completed her PhD at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Stacey's PhD thesis is focused on the relationship between language and society. Specifically, she investigated the way people learn and use language to construct identities, stances and personas. By conducting an experimental series of production- and perception-based studies across two languages, Japanese and Australian English, Stacey found evidence to suggest that our beliefs mediate our prior language experience and thus shape the way we position ourselves in our communities. Notably, while...
2020-07-2731 minWomen in AcademiaProf. Dr Sho Tsuji, Principal Investigator at The University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN)Today it's great to have Prof. Dr Sho Tsuji on the podcast. Dr Tsuji is the principal investigator at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) BabyLab, University of Tokyo. She is fascinated by the question of why babies are so good at learning language. She came to University of Tokyo after studying Psychology and doing research on language acquisition in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the USA. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Tsuji's research on language acquisition in infants, work on overcoming replication crisis in psychology, and on the challenges that female researchers face...
2020-07-2015 minWomen in AcademiaJenny Zeng on Speech and Music Perception in Infants and Cognitive Advantages of BilingualismToday it's great to have Jenny Zeng on the podcast. Jenny is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Jenny's PhD thesis focuses on the infants' cue weighting in speech and music rhythm perception. Stress-timed languages contain lexical stress that is made up of relative stronger cues such as pitch, intensity and duration, which listeners use to segment/group information, and the perception of which is dependent on the rhythmical nature of the language or languages they are learning. English is a stress-timed language, for which lexical stress is used to...
2020-07-1321 minWomen in AcademiaDr Christa Lam-Cassettari, Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute BabyLab, Western Sydney UniversityToday it's great to have Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari on the podcast. Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari is a Researcher in Infant Studies at the MARCS BabyLab, Western Sydney University. She investigates quantitative and qualitative differences in infant-directed speech (IDS) and the role of IDS in supporting early language development. Her main interests are investigating social-emotional and language development in children from 0-5 years of age, without or with hearing loss. Other research interests include differences in parent-child interactions with mothers and fathers, the effect of postnatal depression on parent-child communication and emotional expression, and the role of family centred early interventions...
2020-07-0624 minWomen in AcademiaMaddie Radnan on Time Travelling with TechnologyToday it's great to have Maddie Radnan on the podcast. Maddie is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Maddie's PhD thesis focuses on the Time Travelling with Technology (TTT), which is a technology-based program for promoting relationships and engagement in aged care. TTT is an immersive, dynamic and interactive interface that utilises Google Liquid Galaxy to explore worldly landmarks and locations. In an aged care facility, TTT will be utilised as a platform for technology driven reminiscence therapy. It will give residents the opportunity to travel to both significant and...
2020-06-2916 minWomen in AcademiaDr Marina Jovic, Assistant Professor at The American University of the Middle East, KuwaitToday it's great to have Dr Marina Jovic on the podcast. Marina is an Assistant Professor at The American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. She completed her PhD studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia on "Pragmaticalization of modal verbs could and would in English language from 1800 until present day". Since being from warn torn country, Marina has faced and has successfully overcame many challenges on her journey to Academia by being persistent and never giving up. Listen to this episode to learn more about Marina's inspiring story.Time stamps:[1:00] Marina's Introduction[1:38] Marina's...
2020-06-2212 minWomen in AcademiaYanping Li - The importance of strong motivation and hard work in overcoming challenges on the research journeyToday it's great to have Yanping Li on the podcast. Yanping is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Yanping's PhD thesis focuses on effects of high versus low variability training on second language acquisition of Mandarin tones. In this study two training methods (high vs. low variability) are being examined to evaluate which approach will better assist native English speakers in learning Mandarin tones by taking accented Mandarin tones as the phonetic variability. Word and tonal categorisation are collected to observe the effects of these two perceptual training methods. This...
2020-06-1554 minWomen in AcademiaGloria Maria Pino Escobar, from a Lawyer in Peru to a Researcher in AustraliaToday it's great to have Gloria Maria Pino Escobar on the podcast. Gloria is a PhD student at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University. Gloria's PhD thesis focuses on bridging the gap between domain-general cognitive processes and word learning in monolingual and bilingual children. The results of the present study will demonstrate individual language learning strategies that can be used to leverage vocabulary learning in a tailor-made fashion. Before coming to Australia, Gloria worked as a lawyer in Peru, however, raising two bilingual kids in multilingual country such as Australia inspired Gloria to switch...
2020-06-0842 minWomen in AcademiaInterview with Emily Tan, U.S. Postgraduate Fulbright Research FellowToday it's great to have Emily Tan on the podcast. Emily Tan is U.S. Postgraduate Fulbright Research Fellow at MARCS BabyLab, Western Sydney University, where she conducted research on the role of lullabies in infant language development. Prior to visiting MARCS, Emily served as a research assistant in Dr. Elizabeth Spelke's infant studies laboratory at Harvard University, where she cultivated an appreciation for developmental methods and research questions. Emily's current areas of interest are early language acquisition and word segmentation in young infants, with a focus on the different mediums through which infants are able to segment novel...
2020-06-0140 minWomen in AcademiaAbout meThe special episode in which podcast's host Irena introduces herself and the idea behind the podcast.
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