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Jul 29, 20231 min read
BAP 2023 - round up!
The PaL lab had a brilliant time at BAP 2023 in Manchester. We sent a good delegation presenting three posters and one short oral on a...
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Jun 13, 20231 min read
Becky promoted to Full Professor!
After a long application process, five external reviewers, and many months of waiting - our lab PI Becky found out that Cambridge has...
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Apr 30, 20232 min read
Becky awarded £4.3m Wellcome Mental Health Award
The University of Cambridge is to host one of the new Wellcome Mental Health Awards in the School of Biological Sciences, Department of...
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Sep 30, 20221 min read
Nazia awarded Parke-Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship
This October we welcome Nazia to the lab officially in her new role as postdoc, on a prestigious Parke-Davis Fellowship. During her time...
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Jul 29, 20221 min read
Four lab posters at BAP London 2022
Following a lot of disruption caused by COVID-19, the Prediction and Learning Lab are back with a bang - presenting four posters with new...
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Jul 20, 20221 min read
Becky gives the keynote at ESCAN 2022
In July 2022 Becky attended the European Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) Society meeting in Vienna to give a keynote...
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Jun 1, 20221 min read
Nazia presents 7T MRS data at OHBM 2022
Nazia took her first in-person poster presentation to OHBM in Glasgow. She presented data from her 7T MRS study conducted as part of her...
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Apr 30, 20221 min read
Welcome baby Ottoline!
On April 2nd Becky gave birth to her baby daughter, and honourary lab member - Ottoline Nord-Lawson. Ottie paid her first visit to the...
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Dec 3, 20211 min read
PaL Lab Christmas dinner 2021
We draw a close to 2021 with our annual PaL Lab christmas dinner and secret santa - held at the Old Bicycle Shop. There weren't any...
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Oct 26, 20211 min read
Ellie & Addie present at the Society of fNIRS Virtual Conference 2021!
Addie and Ellie from the BabyPaL Project presented some data at the Society of fNIRS Virtual Conference 2021! You can check out the talk...
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Aug 20, 20211 min read
Ellie publishes new paper in Brain Sciences
PaL Lab post-doc and BabyPal lead Ellie has published a new paper - 'Memory-Guided Saccades in Psychosis, and the Effects of Medication...
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Jul 31, 20211 min read
Becky awarded $2.9m grant
Becky has been awarded a $2.9m (approx. £2.5m) grant from Wellcome Leap. Wellcome Leap is an international funder, and Becky was selected...
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Jul 29, 20211 min read
Ellie publishes new paper in Infant Behaviour and Development
PaL Lab post-doc and BabyPaL lead Ellie has published a new paper from her PhD looking at infant brain responses during free play....
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Apr 15, 20211 min read
Ellie presents at EPS 2021
Ellie gave a smashing talk at the April Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society on her PhD work. You can check it out here!...
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May 27, 20202 min read
How to apply for PhD's
I have written a blog post about applying for PhD's. Over 3 years of mostly unsuccessful applications, there are lots of issues that I...
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Apr 30, 20201 min read
New research survey launched on the impact of COVID-19 on the autism community
The current lockdown measures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic have brought about profound changes to our daily way of life. This survey...
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Feb 18, 20201 min read
Becky and Tim publish new paper in Wellcome Open Research
PaL Lab's very own Tim and Becky have published a new paper investigating visual gain control in autistic adults. We found no difference...
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Oct 16, 20191 min read
Bronagh publishes new paper in Brain
PaL Lab postdoc Bronagh has published a new paper from her doctoral research investigating the effects of dopaminergic medication on...
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May 20, 20191 min read
Bronagh & Ellie receive Postdoctoral Travel Awards to attend BAP
Congratulations to PaL Lab postdocs Bronagh & Ellie who were both awarded postdoctoral travel bursaries to attend their first ever BAP...
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May 20, 20191 min read
Ellie publishes new paper in Experimental Brain Research
PaL Lab postdoc Ellie has published a new paper from her doctoral research investigating whether parental schizotypy predicts sensory...
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