EVOLUTIONARY AND DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITION
DR GILLIAN S FORRESTER
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
United Kingdom
Email: g.forrester@bbk.ac.uk
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
United Kingdom
Email: g.forrester@bbk.ac.uk
UPCOMING and RECENT EVENTS
Science guest lecture :
Becoming human – the evolution of cognition
The City Literary Institute
(£9 ticketed event)
Course Dates: 16/11/18
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Location: KS - Keeley Street
Cerebral Lateralization and the Evolution of Social Cognition:
A Cross-Species Perspective
Biological Anthropology Seminar Series
School of Anthropology and Conservation
University of Kent
20th November 2018
British Psychological Society: Developmental Psychology Section
Annual Conference 2018
Laterality in children’s cradling behaviors and socio-communicative abilities
Liverpool, 12th-14th September.
The Children and Technology Lab (CHaT Lab)
Invited Guest Speaker
University of Sussex
Motor Behaviour Predicts Social Cognition in Children
5th July 2018
Left-Handedness
What a Predicament Podcast
What a Cat Productions
August 2017: Airdate TBA
FutureProof: Ireland's Newstalk FM
The Science of Tongues
August 2017: Airdate: TBA
BBC Radio 4
18th April 2017
The Shock
What happens in the Brain?
Invited Speaker
Accademia dei Lincei
Handedness Facts: from Evolution to Neuroscience
April 4th-5th 2017
Palazzo Corsini, Rome
BBC Radio 4 Archive Hour
5th November
Segment: The Neuroscience Behind Stage Fright
Live recording Catalyst Club: Brighton
22nd September
Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
26th October
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Invited Speaker
Developmental Neurocognition Laboratory
18th October
Department of Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Autism Workshop
Can Lateralised Motor Action Act as a Marker for Children at Risk for ASD?
6th September
(Birkbeck, University of London
Wellcome Trust)
ISBE: Symposium: Fine Motor Coordination and Langauge Abilities in Children
3rd August
University of Exeter
Catalyst Club: Brighton
10th March
The Evolution of Modern Human Cognition
Royal Society: Motor Laterality:
28-29 April
Closed Conference, Chicheley Hall