GENERAL INFORMATION
NDAS'24 is being organized and held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on June 28, 2024. The seminar meetings primarily aim to explore COGNITION AND BEHAVIOUR associated with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions and neurodiversity.
This is part of a broader series of yearly meetings. Initiated in 2012-2013 by Dr. Jo Van Herwegen, Dr. Emily Farran, and Dr. Deborah Riby, NDAS serves as a forum for both new and seasoned researchers to explore the use of new tools and novel research methods in neurodevelopmental disorder studies. It emphasizes developmental trajectory approaches, eye-tracking techniques, and error analysis. for more information about future and previous NDAS meetings, please visit the original website.
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A seminar meeting includes a one-day meeting during which there will be two parallel sessions of talks, two keynote presentations (one early career speaker and one established leading academic) and a poster session throughout the day to allow a wide range of issues to be discussed with presentations from researchers at all stages of their careers. The event will also be a great social opportunity to engage with others in the field. Please click here for a PDF of the up-to-date program schedule for the one-day meeting.
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The timeline for NDAS is shown below. Check back frequently to stay updated!
Organising committee:
Teodora Gliga
Louise Ewing
Robin Lubach
Anna DeLaet
Website design: Eryk Mejia
Logo design: Lizzie Watson
KEYNOTES
University of Reading
Cathy Manning
University of East Anglia
Joni Holmes
Cathy Manning, University of Reading
After completing her BA in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, Cathy Manning obtained an MRes and Phd in Psychology at the UCL Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) from 2010-2014.
At present, Cathy is a lecturer at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences and lead researcher in the Centre for Autism at the University of Reading. Cathy’s research focuses on the development of visual perception in neurodivergent individuals during childhood. This led Cathy to found ‘Sensory Street’, a project which centers around the sensory processing difficulties experienced by individuals with autism, and how public spaces can be made more inclusive and predictable for them. Sensory street are currently collaborating with Autistica to develop adaptations and strategies to facilitate sensory inclusive spaces for autistic individuals.
Joni Holmes, University of East Anglia
Joni Holmes gained her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Durham University in 2005. As a professor of psychology, Joni has been lecturing at the University of East Anglia since 2021.
In addition to her senior membership of the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Joni was Head of the ‘Centre for Attention Learning and Memory’ (CALM) at the University of Cambridge from 2017-2021. CALM is a research clinic that utilizes the transdiagnostic approach to advance our understanding of the cognitive, neural, and genetic features of atypical development. Contributing to the change in how we traditionally think about neurodevelopmental disorders in terms of classification systems, CALMs data-based approaches recognize the importance of shifting towards a child-centered approach that considers individual cognitive and neural characteristics.
NDAS'24 WORKSHOP
Breaking down barriers in neurodevelopmental EEG research: Innovation in methods and analysis
On June 27th, there will be a workshop that includes a mixture of talks and practicals on EEG data acquisition, development oriented pre-processing pipelines, and advanced analysis. Please refer to the timeline of events below for more information.
Guest tutorials:
Ines Mares
William James Center for Research, Portugal
https://williamjamescr.org/people/social-cognitive-and-applied-neuroscience/ines-mares/
Paul Matusz
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland https://groupforrealworldneuroscience.wordpress.com/