Ally originally joined the Surrey Baby Lab team in 2002, soon after it was set up by Dr. Anna Franklin. After graduating from the University of Bath with first class honours, she returned to Surrey to work as a research assistant and study for a PhD. During this time Ally’s research investigated the nature and development of colour categories, using behavioural and electrophysiological techniques such as eye-tracking and Event-Related Potentials. Ally is now a lecturer in the Psychology department and has taken over as the Director of the Surrey Baby Lab. Her research continues to explore aspects of colour perception in infancy and early childhood such as colour preference, colour term acquisition and colour salience. .
Ian Davies joined the Psychology Department when it first formed in the 1970s. His work has shown that language differences in colour terms can affect aspects of colour appearance. Ian collaborates with the Surrey Baby Lab on research which aims to establish the relationship between language and colour perception in early childhood.
Chloe graduated from the University of Surrey with First Class Honours in 2007 and has returned to the University to study for a PhD. She is currently investigating what the origins of colour preference are, taking both developmental and cross-cultural approaches. Her research interests include infant colour preferences and how these change throughout development.
James joined the baby lab as a Research Officer working on a project investigating how infants and adults categorise the visual world. He is currently doing a PhD and is interested in how perception and cognition interact to enable us to infer categories in the structure of an environment, and how we can think and reason about categories flexibly.
Dr. Anna Franklin
University of Sussex
Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/people/peoplelists/person/256540
Email: anna.franklin@sussex.ac.uk.
Dr. Nicola Pitchford
Nottingham Toddler Lab (University of Nottingham)
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/ntl/home.html
Dr. Amanda Holmes
Roehampton University
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/psychology/index.asp
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January 2008
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