Amy Atkinson

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.

@sacairney @ERC_Research @YorkPsychology Amazing news @sacairney - congratulations!

Ecstatic to receive an @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant to lead “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep” @YorkPsychology Stay tuned for job ads in 2025! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

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. eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/219140/

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! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… 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! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

@richjallen @_haticecinar @Asiyah222 Congratulations @_haticecinar & @Asiyah222 :)

Congratulations to two of our brilliant PhD students (@_haticecinar & @Asiyah222) who both passed their vivas this afternoon!

@vmloaiza1 So pleased for you @vmloaiza1, but we will miss you over here in the UK. Hope to still see you at conferences :)

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

@DrRebeccaGordon @JoVanHerwegen @mscthom @CAntalekPhD @ChloeRuMarshall @UCL_IOE_PHD I was actually reading about this yesterday on the Nuffield site. Looks great :)

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. doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…

@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 youtu.be/o6TC3l87mLk

@AbiFiske @LancasterUni @lancspsychres Looking forward to meeting you and welcoming you to the department @AbiFiske 😊

Next week I start my new job as Lecturer in Neuroscience at Lancaster University! I am beyond excited and cannot wait to get started! 🧠👶🥳 @LancasterUni @lancspsychres

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: link.springer.com/article/10.375…

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.

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