Helen Olawole-Scott has been a Research Assistant for the Centre for Neuroscience in Education since she joined in 2018. She is currently working on the BabyRhythm project.
Biography
After completing her BSc in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, Helen obtained an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam with funding from the Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship scheme.
Helen enjoys working with a range methods, spanning from eye-tracking technology to electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). She has a broad range of interests which are reflected in her research internships (‘Detecting local sleep patterns in awake participants using EEG’ and ‘tDCS of the parietal cortex to bias spatial attention’) and literature thesis (‘Alzheimer pathology in the visual system of Alzheimer disease patients’), which were completed over the course of the MSc course.
Before joining the Centre of Neuroscience in Education, Helen worked on several research projects as a Research Assistant and Research Administrator in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, including a project focusing on the behavioural and neuro-correlates of vocal imitation and speech learning.
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.
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.
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]. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
Van Opstal, F., Olawole-Scott, H., Gevers, W., & Jubera-Garcia, E. (2019, September 13-16) Local sleep in the awake human brain [Poster presentation]. Computational Neuroscience Forum, Berlin, Germany.
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.
Holmes, T., Olawole-Scott, H., & Zanker, J. (2016, August 29-September 1) Evolution of symmetry in fractal tree and moss patterns [Poster presentation]. European Conference on Visual Perception, Barcelona, Spain.
Other Professional Activities
While at Royal Holloway Helen was awarded the Dorothy Farrar Essay Prize for her dissertation on 'The Effectiveness of Alternative Treatments for Dementia'.
