Vesna, Florence, and Mirjana presented our findings on emotion processing in WS and ASD at the Williams Syndrome Researchers UK Meeting (https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1267) on 18 and 19 September 2019.  

We welcome Melissa Knight who joins the team as a Research Speech and Language Therapist, to investigate the effectiveness of music-assisted programmes on communication in children with autism aged 2-4…Read More >

Kathryn Ansell has joined the group as the lab manager for the project.  This post is a third year placement for her BSc Psychology degree at Keele University, to gain…Read More >

We are very excited to start our MAP project today, in which we will design music-assisted programmes (MAP) for language interventions in 2-4-year-old autistic children. Please get in touch if…Read More >

Florence presented her PhD project on emotion processing in amusia and autism at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC): “Priming effects of speech…Read More >

Florence presented her PhD project on emotion processing in amusia and autism at Reading Emotions 2019: “Priming effects of speech and song on facial emotion recognition: A comparative study between…Read More >

At the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), held on May 1-4, 2019, in Montreal, Canada, Caitlin Dawson presented our research findings on speech and song…Read More >

Georgia Matthews, our UROP 2018 placement student, presented our research on intonation processing in autism at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, at the University of South Wales, on 15th-16th…Read More >

Fang Liu presented her ERC Proof of Concept Grant (MAP, 838787) on music-assisted language interventions for autism at the All About Autism conference organised by Autism Berkshire on 2 April…Read More >