Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng
@DrSWijeakumar
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Assistant Professor @UniofNottingham| Neurocognitive development | Caregiver-child interactions | Contextual influences| Long-term outcomes.
Nottingham, England
Joined March 2011
RT @wellcometrust: Our new mental health funding award opens soon! . We’re supporting teams to accelerate the development and roll out of….
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RT @UoNPressOffice: The University @UoNFacultyMHS has marked the official unveiling of the Naaz Coker Ovarian Cancer Research Centre brin….
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Great to be at #ECP2025 and present talks on caregiver-infant interactions, cross-cultural findings in UK and India and computational modelling of caregiver and infant visual cognition.
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RT @Infantstudies: Liu et al. (2025): At 12mos, preterm infants spent most of their time interacting w/ objects, and parents were often eng….
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Development takes place when change in one domain cascades into change in another domain. Preterm infants exhibit disruptions to their object play and the maintenance of a joint focus of attention...
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Well done to @davidsonchri for passing her PhD viva today! Her work from @NeurosyncP looked at longitudinal changes in different types of caregiver-infant play interactions and links to infant visual working memory.
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RT @itsalexvacca: BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn….
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RT @UniofNottingham: We’re proud to share the news that we’ve been ranked among the world’s top 100 universities in the latest QS World Uni….
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Proud supervisor day. @aimeetheyer successfully defended her viva today. Her work focussed on infant visual neurocognition and caregiver-infant interactions - data from @NeurosyncP.
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RT @lucycragg: Over the last 2 weeks, all Year 4 children in England have been assessed on their ability to quickly recall multiplication f….
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Recalling multiplication facts doesn’t automatically help children to apply their knowledge.
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RT @maheensidd91: If you’re interested in diversity in academia, join our virtual panel event! We’ll be featuring developmental psychology/….
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Excited about this!.
We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijeakumar Prof @leher_singh and Dr @Dolapoadegboye3. Register your place using the QR code in the flyer!#DiversityInScience
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RT @DivDevSci: We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijea….
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RT @Atul_Monash: New paper from our team:. Pathogenesis of Preterm Intraventricular Haemorrhage. We review the matu….
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RT @sbaroncohen: Thanks Sue for your valuable radio doc where we discussed the myth that autistic people lack empathy. Autistic people may….
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Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy.
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RT @UfNCollab: Exciting news📢 Thanks to a £2.3M grant from Research England and Leicestershire’s universities, we have an incredible opport….
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RT @samhforbes: This looks super cool and you get to work with @DrSWijeakumar - get applying!.
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RT @FIT_NGIn: ⏰ 1 DAY LEFT! .🗓️ Abstract and symposium submissions will close tomorrow. Time is running out, submit now!! 💻.🔗.
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RT @WileyPsychology: 🎉 We are thrilled to welcome the newest member of the Developmental Science team – our new DEI Associate Editor, @bruc….
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RT @Infantstudies: .@lanakarasik et al. (2025): in Tajikistan, infants explore objects across home spaces despite few toys, interacting wit….
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Object play is a ubiquitous context for learning. Existing knowledge on infant object interaction has relied on Euro-American samples and observations confined to laboratory playrooms or families'...
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