Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ONACSA (Oscillatory neural and autonomic correlates of social attunedness during early life: new mechanistic insights into how we learn to learn from one another)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2022-03-01 al 2023-08-31
The six PhDs working on the project are all taking different approaches, running different analyses based on the same naturalistic data. In different ways, they all aim to understand how endogenous control emerges from, and is expressed through, the inter-relationship between a child and their everyday environment. We hope that these combined studies will provide a variety of important new perspectives on how endogenous control emerges from, and is expressed through, the inter-relationship between a child and their everyday environment. You can read more about the PhDs projects here: https://uelbabydev.com/project/oscillatory-neural-and-autonomic-correlates-of-social-attunedness-onacsa/
For work package 1 (WP1), we have successfully collected the following Infant-caregiver dyads data:
• EEG data: 109 (5-month-old); 46 (10-month-old); 25 (15-month-old).
• ECG data: 111 (5-month-old); 43 (10-month-old); 27 (15-month-old).
• Frequency tagging data: 64 (5-month-old); 15 (10-month-old); 6 (15-month-old).
• Home data (wearable devices and cameras): 80 (5-month-old); 39 (10-month-old), 21 (15-month-old).
For work package 2 (WP2), we over-recruited based on our original target of N=100 dyads, reaching N=116 as the final sample who attended at least the first lab visit. Unfortunately, however, the drop-out from the longitudinal study was high and adversely affected by the fact that we repeatedly had to shut down testing due to COVID-19 lockdowns, meaning that all participants who were in the middle of the 8-week training phase of the project were lost. The final N of participants who completed all 8 visits of either the eyetracker attention training or the active control group was N=49 (24 attention training/25 control).
In addition, we have generated outputs that include seven conference presentations, seven poster presentations and the publication of 17 papers, including literature reviews, methods and results papers. Also, the PhD students have lectured undergraduate students on the new methods they have developed and the results they have gathered from the project. Media/public engagement actions have included a summer 2022 outreach party, where we celebrated the families from our local community that have taken part in our project and presented results from our findings. Furthermore, Sam Wass has featured in outlets such as the Times Educational Supplement and the Early Years Educator, talking about our research plans for the grant, as well as providing thought pieces for iNews, based on the results gathered by the grant. Full, up-to-date lists of our media and public engagement activities are covered on our lab website www.uelbabydev.com and social media channels – Twitter @uelbabydev, Instagram @uelbabydev and Facebook (search UEL Babydev).