Infant Behaviour Under The Spotlight At Conference, UK

Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry
Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health;  Conferences
Article Date: 02 Sep 2008 - 2:00 PDT

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This week, psychologists from around the world will meet at The British Psychological Society's Developmental Section conference at Oxford Brookes University to share their latest research in child development.

Developmental psychologists specialise in how the brains of infants and babies develop and how children come to be, and behave, as they do. This year's conference covers topics from imagination and communication to attachment, reasoning, and developmental disorders including autism.

Keynote speakers at the conference, which runs from 1 to 3 September 2008, include Professor Avi Sadeh from Tel Aviv University, who will talk about infant sleep and parenting, and Professor Peter Bryant from Oxford Brookes University who will discuss how children teach themselves about reading and spelling.

Other speakers include: Josephine Ross from the University of Stirling who will present the findings of her study into whether young children's behaviour is influenced by self-awareness.

Professor David Messer from The Open University who will present the findings of a survey of more than 16,000 people looking at self-esteem, optimism and feelings of control across the life span.

Tessa Dekker from the University of Amsterdam will present her research looking at infants' visual interaction with 'baby DVDs'.

These papers are all being presented at The British Psychological Society's Developmental Section Conference being held at Oxford Brookes University from 1- 3 September 2008.

The British Psychological Society