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Estimating the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Adults: Extending the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aim of the survey was to extend the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) prevalence estimate of autism among adults aged 18 years or over, to include adults with learning disabilities aged 18 years and over living in private households or communal care establishments. Fieldwork was...
Predictive action impairment in autism: behavioral and brain imaging data
The data stored here includes behavioral data, primarily kinematic (e.g., reaction times, duration), and neuropsychological data (e.g., working memory, cognitive planning, fine motor skills), as well as functional brain imaging data (fMRI) in the form of contrast files. A contrast file is opened using software compatible with the Neuroimaging Informatics Technology...
Millennium Cohort Study: Age 11, Sweep 5, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
Using Perceptual Learning to Understand and Influence Face Recognition, 2018-2021
Data corresponding to publications from the ESRC new investigator grant project. The project focuses on the development of perceptual learning as a key factor to our ability to recognise faces. Further, by using a range of neuroscience techniques in conjunction with the behavioural designs, I have investigated methods to improve this perceptual skill and define specific...
Risk and resilience following childhood maltreatment 2013-2017
Data was collected at home, university and school settings from children 10-16 by trained psychology staff in a quiet setting. Data were collected via questionnaires and with psychological experimental tasks. The functional tasks investigated both autobiographical memory and affect processing. This research is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of...
Reconceptualising how children with autism learn words 2016-2018
Data from a series of experimental studies conducted in 2017-2018 investigating how children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development learn words. Children completed a Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) – a 40-minute semi-structured activity session in order to observe their communication and social skills.Word learning is a vital aspect of children's...
Evidence for systematicity in infant and toddler curiosity-driven learning 2017-2018
The study is an eyetracking experiment run with 12- and 28-month old children and adults. Participants from each age group were randomly assigned to a label or no-label condition. Participants saw a single shape prime from a novel shape category for 10s, followed by four further target shapes from the same category, for 10 prime-target pairs (20 for adults). Participants in...
Visual Motion and Decision-making in Dyslexia: Reduced Accumulation of Sensory Evidence and Related Neural Dynamics, 2018-2020
This collection contains the EEG and behavioural data relating to the article by Manning et al. published in 'Journal of Neuroscience': 'Visual motion and decision-making in dyslexia: Reduced accumulation of sensory evidence and related neural dynamics'. Children with and without dyslexia differ in their behavioural responses to visual information, particularly when required...
Behavioural and Neural Indices of Perceptual Decision-making in Autistic Children During Visual Motion Tasks, 2018-2020
This collection contains the EEG and behavioural data relating to the article by Manning et al. published in the journal, 'Behavioural and neural indices of perceptual decision-making in autistic children during visual motion tasks'. Many studies report atypical responses to sensory information in autistic individuals, yet it is not clear which stages of processing are...
Cross-cultural study of the mediation effects of executive functions on numeracy skills, Subset 2: Experimental data 2013-2015
In the fields of education, sociology and economics, there is a long-standing connection between socioeconomic status (SES) and school outcomes in a wide variety of cultural settings, but these studies have yet to examine the possible mediating effects of domain-general cognitive factors such as executive functions (EF). Addressing this gap and building on evidence for links...
When is Outgroup Inclusion a Deviant Act: The Role of Agent and Participant Group Status, 2022-2023
We examine the conditions in which children aged 4-11 judge an objectively positive act – inclusion - relatively negatively (i.e., when violating group norms, and when performed by individuals of differing group status).
Because asking children to make prosocial choices under conditions of perceived social risk is an ethical challenge, we instead asked children to evaluate...
Skills underlying mathematics: When is working memory important for arithmetic 2017
This study investigated the extent to which working memory requirements for different arithmetic strategies changes with age between 9 years and young adulthood. The impact of verbal and visuospatial working memory on different arithmetic strategies was also compared. The task was administered to 138 participants between 9 and 25 years of age. Datasets from other, separate,...
The role of trauma specific behaviours and parenting style in facilitating child psychological adjustment
The PROTECT data collection includes study measures (questionnaires, interviews, tasks), their corresponding scoring guides, and quantitative data extracted from these measures. The collection contains data from three time points: within 6 weeks of the traumatic event, three months after the traumatic event and six months after the traumatic event.
Consent and information...
Skills underlying mathematics: When is working memory important for arithmetic
This study investigated the extent to which working memory requirements for different arithmetic strategies changes with age between 9 years and young adulthood. The impact of verbal and visuospatial working memory on different arithmetic strategies was also compared. The task was administered to 138 participants between 9 and 25 years of age. Datasets from other, separate,...
Skills underlying mathematics: Executive functions and components of mathematics
This data collection contains data from a large battery of mathematics and executive function tasks administered to a sample of 403 participants aged between 5 and 25 years of age. The data collection includes standardised assessments of mathematics, the Numerical Operations and Mathematical Reasoning subtests from the Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-II UK), in...
Experimental data on reasoning and cue competition effects in causal learning in children 2010-2011
Data resulting from three sets of experiments with children to assess cue competition effects of blocking in causal learning using a purpose-built toy robot.
Learning about what objects or events can cause other events - known as causal learning - is one of the fundamental challenges children face as they find out about the world.
There is considerable debate over how...
Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study: Screening Data, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first UK population study of language development and disorder at school entry. The study is funded by Wellcome and the ESRC and involves more than 180 schools across Surrey UK.This longitudinal study was initially established to...
Millennium Cohort Study: Age 14, Sweep 6, 2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
Using Perceptual Learning to Understand and Influence Face Recognition, 2018-2021
Data corresponding to publications from the ESRC new investigator grant project. The project focuses on the development of perceptual learning as a key factor to our ability to recognise faces. Further, by using a range of neuroscience techniques in conjunction with the behavioural designs, I have investigated methods to improve this perceptual skill and define specific...
Stockholm Birth Cohort
The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) was created in 2004/2005 by a probability matching of two anonymized longitudinal datasets; The Stockholm Metropolitan study and The Swedish Work and Mortality Database (WMD). The former involves all children born 1953 that lived in the Stockholm metropolitan area as of November 1, 1963, while the latter comprises data for the period...
Millennium Cohort Study: Age 5, Sweep 3, 2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
Forward anticipation of movement in typically developing children and in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
All actions are composed of a string of movements; simply pouring water from a kettle into a cup requires the hand to grasp the kettle, lift and move the kettle, tip the kettle to pour and place the kettle back down. When joining these movements each element can be tailored to the next in the sequence: if we grasped the kettle handle too far down we would need to re-assess...
Self-Presentation in Childhood: Managing Public Identity after Rule Violation, 2007-2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Self-presentation refers to behaviour designed to shape the way one is seen by other people. Although such 'impression management' is recognised as a core part of human social interaction, little research has looked specifically at its development in childhood. This project investigated young children's...
Millennium Cohort Study: Age 7, Sweep 4, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
Development of Perceptual Causality, 1996-2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project concerns the tendency to perceive cause-and-effect in schematic events: If square A moves up to B, which moves away at or before contact, adults see this as A launching B, or as B running from A. Thus they relate minimal perceptual information to complex notions of causality in mechanical or...
Economics of perceptual and motor decisions in childhood
This collection includes data from a series of laboratory behavioural experiments. The experiments investigate several aspects of perception, action and decision-making during development, comparing the decisions of children and adults with the predictions of ideal-observer models. The experiments are described in full in journal articles. In the case of articles that are...
The development of lexical flexibility, behavioural data 2016-2019
These are behavioural data from experiments on children's word learning. The experiments typically assessed children from age 2 to age 4 or 5.
Specifically, the projects herein assessed three questions.
(1) How do children learn new senses for known words? These studies examined whether knowing one sense of a word supports 3- and 4-year-old children in learning additional...
Looking time and eye-tracking dwell times from infant numerical perception experiments
These data files largely contain preferential looking data for pairs of experiments that were run in tandem. One file (relating to Experiment 19 and 20) contains Tobii eye tracker dwell times to the two objects in the outcome display (the same are currently being coded for the other experiments). The document containing figures outlines the manipulation concerned in each...
Curiosity-based learning in infants: a neurocomputational approach, experimental data 2017-2018
Infants are curious learners who drive their own cognitive development by imposing structure on their learning environment as they explore. Understanding the mechanisms by which infants structure their own learning is therefore critical to our understanding of development. Here we propose an explicit mechanism for intrinsically motivated information selection that maximizes...
Early childhood development: Identifying successful interventions and the mechanisms behind them
A key aim of this research is to identify cost-effective and sustainable interventions to promote early childhood development. We will implement two interventions in rural Colombia in a cost effective way, by exploiting the structure and networks built up by the conditional cash transfer programme, Familias en Acción. This offers a model for scaling up of the interventions,...