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Victoria St. Clair

@vstclair.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Birkbeck's Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development🦉 Studying children's interactions & the role of early language experience in development 🧠 | Vermonter 🍁 | L2 signer of ASL&BSL 🙌 | she/her

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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
More detail here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Huge thanks to @teresadelbianco.bsky.social, Emily, Mairéad, Roberto, @pdbright.bsky.social, Atsushi, Evelyne, and our funders: @ucl.ac.uk, @leverhulme.ac.uk, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, ESRC, & @britishacademy.bsky.social (3/3).
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We found that after initially looking at faces & mouths, biling infants disengaged more than monos to view other areas of the scene (7-18mo, n=131). In contrast, biling toddlers increased mouth-looking more over stimulus time than monos (18-34mo, n=745 from dHCP) (2/3).
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How does early bilingualism affect social attention strategies? 👀 In our new preprint, we use within-trial growth curve analysis to test differences in how monolingual and bilingual children allocate their attention over time to static faces and dynamic mouths. (1/3)
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Looking forward to it! 🧠
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
More detail here: tinyurl.com/5975u5u3 & code available here: tinyurl.com/5n9xmahe. Grateful for wonderful co-authors Letizia, Rebecca, @paola182.bsky.social, & Denis, the Birkbeck Toddlerlab (@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social), and funding from the @leverhulme.bsky.social. (4/4)
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Analytical pipeline optimisation in developmental fNIRS hyperscanning data: Neural coherence between 4- to 6-year old children collaborating with their mothers
Abstract. Much of a child’s early learning takes place during social interactions with others. Neural synchrony, the temporal alignment of individuals’ functional brain activity, is a neural mechanism...
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
we create a pseudodyad distribution that preserves task-related frequencies whilst disrupting temporal information in the signal. Results suggest synchrony is at least partially related to patterns of social interaction & isn't driven entirely by a shared task/environment. (3/4)
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We show that NIRS signals are contaminated by non-neural signals that, if not removed, can artificially inflate brain-to-brain synchrony measurement. It is also likely that some degree of synchrony is driven by perception of a shared task/environment. To examine this, (2/4)
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Victoria St. Clair @vstclair.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Happy to share our new study on neural synchrony during children's collaborative problem-solving! We use wearable fNIRS (@artinis.bsky.social) to replicate findings that synchrony emerges between 4-6yos and parents during collaboration & provide new insight into what it might mean. (1/4)
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