Dr. Áine Ní Choisdealbha has been working as a Research Associate for the Centre for Neuroscience in Education since she joined in 2018. She is currently working on the BabyRhythm project.
Biography
Áine completed her PhD in Psychology at Lancaster University as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded ACT network. She studied motor development and tool use in infants and her thesis was titled "Semantic and motor processes in infant perception of object-directed and tool-mediated action". Before joining the CNE, Áine conducted policy-focused research for Irish regulatory agencies as part of the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin.
She has an MSc in Neuroscience from Trinity College Dublin and was awarded the Novartis Prize for her grades. Her dissertation focused on evoked potentials in semantic processing of speech. She also has a BA (Mod) in Psychology and English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected to Scholarship in 2019. She also held a scholarship for Irish language speakers. During her undergraduate studies, she was a research intern in the Perception Lab at University College Dublin.
Publications
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Rocha, S., Brusini, P., Mead, N., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Williams, I., Ahmed, H., Grey, C., Flanagan, S., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). The development of amplitude rise time detection in the first year [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Rocha, S., Mead, N., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Flanagan, S., Williams, I., Ahmed, H., Grey, C., Brusini, P., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). Changes in neural rhythmic entrainment during the first year of life [Symposium talk]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Brusini, P., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). BabyRhythm: Early infant audio-motor rhythmic synchronisations predicts later language outcomes [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Liberto, G.M., Brusini, P., Rocha, S., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., Williams, I., & Goswami, U. (2019, October 19-23) Neural Oscillations and nursery rhymes; An EEG study into individual differences in infant language development [Poster presentation]. Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Brusini, P., Rocha, S., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2019, June 13-15). Individual differences in auditory entrainment to speech and nonspeech rhythm by infants and relations with early language development [Poster presentation]. Workshop on Infant Language Development, Potsdam, Germany.
Michel, C., Kaduk, K., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., & Reid, V. M. (2017). Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1833-1843.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Westermann, G., Dunn, K., & Reid, V. (2016). Dissociating associative and motor aspects of action understanding: Processing of dual‐ended tools by 16‐month‐old infants. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34(1), 115-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.1211
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., & Reid, V. (2014). The developmental cognitive neuroscience of action: Semantics, motor resonance and social processing. Experimental Brain Research, 232, 1585–1597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3924-y
Brady, N., Maguinness, C., & Ní Choisdealbha, Á. (2011). My hand or yours? Markedly different sensitivity to egocentric and allocentric views in the hand laterality task. PLOS ONE, 6(8), e23316. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023316
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Brady, N., & Maguinness, C. (2011). Differing roles for the dominant and non-dominant hands in the hand laterality task. Experimental Brain Research, 211(1), 73–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2652-9
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Timmons, S., & Lunn, P. D. (2020). Experimental evidence for the effects of emissions charges and efficiency information on consumer car choices. Journal of Cleaner Production, 254, 120140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120140
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., & Lunn, P. D. (In Press). Green and simple: Disclosures on eco-labels interact with situational constraints in consumer choice. Journal of Consumer Policy.
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Brusini, P., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2020, January 8-10). Infant gross motor rhythmic synchronisation and relationships with language [Poster presentation]. 10th Annual CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
Lunn, P. D., Bohacek, M., McGowan, F. P., & Ní Choisdealbha, Á. (2019). The surplus identification task and limits to multiattribute consumer choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(2), 312-338. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000252
Lunn, P. D., & Ní Choisdealbha, Á. (2018). The case for laboratory experiments in behavioural public policy. Behavioural Public Policy, 2(1), 22-40. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2016.6
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbh, A., Brusini, P., Mead, N., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Flannagan, S., & Goswami, U. (2018, September 21). The BabyRhythm Project: Looking longitudinally at early rhythmic skill and language development [Presentation]. BASIS Annual Scientific Meeting, London, UK.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Piech, R. M., Fuller, J. K., & Zald, D. H. (2017). Reaching back: The relative strength of the retroactive emotional attentional blink. Scientific Reports, 7, 43645. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep43645
Lunn, P., Bohacek, M., Somerville, J., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., & McGowan, F. (2016). PRICE Lab: An Investigation of Consumers’ Capabilities with Complex Products. Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Research Series. https://www.esri.ie/publications/price-lab-an-investigation-of-consumers-capabilities-with-complex-products
Teaching and Supervisions
Áine has supervised undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge as part of the “Social and Developmental Psychology" and "Language, Mind and Brain” modules. She also helped to supervise a visiting postgraduate student from Maastricht who was studying developmental changes in infants' attention to speakers' faces.
Other Professional Activities
While studying for her MSc at Trinity College, Dublin, Áine was awarded the Novartis Prize for her high marks. She was also awarded an Irish government scholarship for her final school examination results. In 2019 Áine was elected to Scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed her MSc and BA (Mod).
Áine has been a reviewer for journals including, but not limited to, Psychological Science, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroImage, and Experimental Brain Research.
As a Research Staff Representative in the Department of Psychology, Áine advocates for research staff within the Department and within the wider community of postdoctoral and researcher representatives at Cambridge. During term time, Áine runs a journal club for members of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education and students to analyse and discuss articles about psychology and neuroscience.
Áine is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
