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News Coverage
The launch of our new Lifespan Research Lap space on campus recently made it into local and national news coverage.
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New high-tech lab is first of its kind in Scotland
A specialist laboratory which uses state of the art equipment for the study of behaviour, cognition, and brain function across the lifespan has opened at the University of Stirling.
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Can children mentally travel through time?
A study on using reasoning to solve time-based tasks We are investigating the link between a child’s stage of development and whether they can represent the idea of time in their head and “project” their mind into the past/future. To do this, we are inviting children aged 3 to 5 years to visit the Lifespan
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Illustrating Adventurous Play
Lifespan Lab researcher Dr Lily FitzGibbon teamed up with children’s illustrator Kasia Matyjaszek to develop an illustrated toolkit for researching children’s advernturous play. The project was funded by the Froebel Trust. Illustrated Adventurous Play Toolkit The team developed an ‘Illustrated Adventurous Play Toolkit‘ to provide prompts and provocations to help young children (pre- and primary
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What’s in the box?
PhD student Lauren Taylor is currently running a study about the link between counterfactual thinking (thinking of how making a different decision could have caused a different current reality) and episodic memory (memories of the past).
