Departmental Research

Every week, we will be showcasing a piece of research from the UCL PHD department! Don’t forget to check out the departmental website for more information!

This week’s article is “Expressive vocabulary predicts nonverbal executive function: a 2-year longitudinal study of deaf and hearing children” by Jones, Atkinson, Marshall, Botting, St Clair and Morgan (2020)

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14 August 2020

This week’s article is “The relationship between learning mathematics and general cognitive ability in primary school” by Cowan, Hurry and Midouhas (2018).

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7 August 2020

This week’s article is “Autism spectrum disorder traits are associated with empathetic abilities in adults with anorexia nervosa” by Kerr-Graffney, Harrison and Tchanturia (2020).


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28 July 2020

This week’s article is “Working memory and high-level cognition in children: An analysis of timing and accuracy in complex span tasks” by Gordon, Smith-Spark, Newton and Henry (2019).

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20 July 2020

This week’s article is “Mental Toughness: Is it the Key to Academic Success?” by Hunt, Usher, Fern-Pollak, Stock and Cochia (2016).

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14 July 2020

This week’s article is “Bystander Responses to Bias-Based Bullying in Schools: A Developmental Intergroup Approach” by Palmer and Abbott (2018).


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