The SEND system is not working effectively, which is having devastating impacts on the lives of children, young people, and their families. Proud to have co-led this report with Uta Papen, which includes key shortcomings with the current system and a number of recommendations.

Running after Two Hares in Visual Working Memory: Exploring Retrospective Attention to Multiple Items Using Simulation, Behavioral Outcomes, and Eye-tracking New work with Taiji Ueno, coming out soon in JEPHPP. https://t.co/54c44jHbaY

New post doc position available with us at Leeds, on our ESRC-funded project exploring working memory & cognitive ageing, using behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and fNIRS! https://t.co/R7qQGqV3pF Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

‼️Closing Sept 30th ‼️ Lecturer/Senior Lecturer job! Seeking a new colleague with expertise in human neuroscience to join our awesome psych dept @LancasterUni. Strategic post to develop our neuro research - get in touch for a chat! Pls RT! https://t.co/feu9wc9jXZ

Our Nuffield funded MetaSENse toolkit is now live. What interventions work for which SEND groups, & barriers teachers face in accessing them. The toolkit: https://t.co/WZ3BJUQqM6 @JoVanHerwegen @mscthom @CAntalekPhD Thomas Masterson @ChloeRuMarshall Julie Dockrell @UCL_IOE_PHD

Our paper on accelerated forgetting in epilepsy is now out and online at Cortex. With @Amy__Atkinson, @katapauly, @DrCMGoodridge, Steven Kemp, Sarah Martin, & Alan Baddeley. https://t.co/Xa9G3uR8b1

@BBCNews TV coverage of our @BICYCLE_Study to support children born during the first year of the pandemic as they start primary school this week. @botting_nikki @ProfLHenry @CityLCS @UniversityLeeds @ElizabethSelby @SpeechAndLangUK @Clarkevanessa https://t.co/h3mCAlv97q

New paper available online in Memory and Cognition! We explored social offloading (i.e., the leveraging of other agents in the social world to facilitate cognitive performance) among adults using a novel visuospatial working memory task. Check it out here:

Taken together, these experiments provide consistent evidence that adults with symptoms of ADHD are as able to prioritise particularly valuable information in working memory as controls.

Similar findings were found in Experiment 2, when no trial-by-trial feedback was presented, and also in analyses across experiments, and a number of follow-up analyses.

There were also no significant correlations between the degree of inattentive and hyperactive symptoms reported by the participants and the size of the effects.

In Experiment 1, participants showed a prioritisation effect - performing better at the first item when this item was more valuable (relative to the condition in which all items were equally valuable). Crucially, there was no evidence the effect differed across groups.

Trial-by-trial feedback (including point scores) was present in Experiment 1, and absent in Experiment 2.

Participants with symptoms of ADHD and controls completed a visual working memory task, in which they remembered coloured shapes for a brief period of time. On some trials, all items were equally valuable. On other trials, the first item was worth more points than the rest.

A number of competing hypotheses could be formed from existing literature. Based on existing literature, it could be predicted that individuals with symptoms of ADHD would show smaller, larger, or equivalent-sized effects compared to controls.

Previous research has demonstrated that neurotypical individuals can prioritise particularly valuable information in working memory. But are individuals with symptoms of ADHD able to do this as effectively?

** New preprint** Here we investigate whether adults with symptoms of ADHD are as able to prioritise information in working memory as control participants: https://t.co/hcgXX0U02U with Beatriz Pinheiro Sanchez, @m_warb, Heather Allmark & @richjallen A thread 🧵: #WMinpress

On Wednesday 14th August, we will host a @ChildoftheNort1 @CfYoungLives webinar on adressing the Special Educational Needs support crisis. Speakers will present evidence, policy recommendations & case studies. Join here on 14/08 ➡️ https://t.co/QWoMu9kqmz

A second paper from @Xiaotongpsyc's PhD, looking at concurrent task effects on value-directed prioritisation over different time delays in episodic memory. Out now in Memory: https://t.co/zUE0UTglBk

Preprint version of a study we did on retrieval practice effects in associative memory -> https://t.co/ueOFO156Ao

Our review of value-directed prioritisation in working memory now fully out at QJEP. with @Amy__Atkinson & Graham Hitch. Getting value out of working memory through strategic prioritisation: Implications for storage and control -