@DrSWijeakumar

Associate Professor @UniofNottingham| Neurocognitive development | Caregiver-child interactions | Contextual influences| Long-term outcomes.

 Nottingham, England
projectneurosync.co.uk
Joined March 2011
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Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng retweeted
Flavia H. Santos, PhD@flavinska72Sep 23
Highly competitive, fully funded #PhD at @ucl @IOE_London UBEL #Doctorate Training Programme: tinyurl.com/27fsjwt8 Verify your eligibility. If your interests align with mine, send me a draft & transcripts by October 10. #scholarship #studentship #UBELDTP #ESRC #cogsci
Poster for a call regarding a PhD scholarship at UCL, including a famous painting of a girl wearing a blue top (credits in the image), QR codes, logos and detailed information such as the deadline and links for further information.

ALT Poster for a call regarding a PhD scholarship at UCL, including a famous painting of a girl wearing a blue top (credits in the image), QR codes, logos and detailed information such as the deadline and links for further information.

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Really proud of @GhadaAmaireh for this amazing achievement. It was a pleasure to supervise you!
Ghada Saleem GMBPsS@GhadaAmairehAug 3
Thrilled to share that I’ve graduated with my PhD! 🎓 A special thank you to @DrSWijeakumar , for your guidance, encouragement, and unwavering support throughout this journey. Thank you also to @LineCaes and @cMadan for your support and mentorship. @NeurosyncP @notts_psych
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Ghada Saleem GMBPsS@GhadaAmairehAug 3
Thrilled to share that I’ve graduated with my PhD! 🎓 A special thank you to @DrSWijeakumar , for your guidance, encouragement, and unwavering support throughout this journey. Thank you also to @LineCaes and @cMadan for your support and mentorship. @NeurosyncP @notts_psych
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5 Weeks and counting... It's nearly Summer Scientist time. Which is your favourite game from years gone by? Colour Swap, Colby The Programmable Mouse, or the good old fashioned Hook a Duck? nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/…
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New research from colleagues in our school (@ronitibon,@cMadan) establishes the use of a measure of brain complexity across two datasets (#ADNI and #BioFIND) for detecting Alzheimer’s disease sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations to Dubheasa, PhD student (second from left) for best oral presentation at the U of Nott PGR conference. She presented our work on interpersonal synchrony and executive functions. @BaharTuncgenc and I are lucky to be her supervisors! @UfNCollab @PsychologyNTU
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham@notts_psychMay 13
Fantastic talks and posters at our #PGRConference today! Huge congratulations to the runners-up and winners of the Open Research, Best Poster, and Best Talk awards!
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NIRx Medical Tech.@NIRx_NIRSMar 30
How reproducible is #fNIRS within a subject? 🧠📍 Wagner et al. (2025) show HbO responses are more reproducible than HbR across 10+ sessions of visual and motor tasks. Source localisation and optode digitisation improved repeatability. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage…
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The deadline for this fully-funded PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry is tomorrow (18th Feb). Apply if you are interested in improving executive functions in children from neurotypical and neurodiverse families.
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 20
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Sharing a fantastic paper using Miro-E I was lucky to be involved in. Led by the amazing Nikhil Deshpande at @UoNComputerSci @notts_psych. A Multimodal Adaptive Framework for Social Interaction with the MiRo-E Robot mdpi.com/3727124 #mdpisensors via @Sensors_MDPI

A Multimodal Adaptive Framework for Social Interaction with the MiRo-E Robot

Adaptivity is a key component of social human–robot interaction (HRI) towards achieving more natural and human-like interactions. Current interactive systems tend to rely on preset and repetitive...

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Only one week left to apply for this ESRC PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry. If you are interested in how to improve executive functions through caregiver-child play interactions in neurotypical and neurodiverse families, consider applying!
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 20
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Áine T. Dineen@AineDineenFeb 2
Through the Foundcog project we scanned 100+ infants with awake fMRI. In this Nature Neuroscience paper led by @ClionaODoherty, we show that, by 2-months, infants’ brains already encode rich representations of object category. Congratulations Clíona on such beautiful results!🧠
Cliona O'Doherty@ClionaODohertyFeb 2
1/7 Does the infant brain have representational structure? 👶🧠In the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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Two weeks till the deadline for this fully-funded ESRC DTP position with me and @alexhendry on play interactions and executive functions in neurotypical and neurodiverse families. Please share!
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 20
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Apply now for a PhD in our school with @DrSWijeakumar 👇
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 28
Three weeks until the deadline for this fully funded ESRC DTP PhD position with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
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Three weeks until the deadline for this fully funded ESRC DTP PhD position with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 20
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng@DrSWijeakumarJan 20
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts_psych and @alexhendry! Look at application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely! jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/esrc-d…
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Thanks @NIRx_NIRS
NIRx Medical Tech.@NIRx_NIRS19 Dec 2025
How do #infant-caregiver brains coordinate attention? These researchers show that during natural play, caregiver left STG activation is linked to infants’ joint-attention patterns and visual short-term memory, via #fNIRS #hyperscanning. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/infa.70044
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‼️New paper‼️Alex Turner, Aly Magassouba and I applied a transformer-based ML network to capture caregiver-infant behaviors during play. Performance metrics differ based on data partition - with drop when tested on unseen dyads! @notts_psych @NeurosyncP sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dr Christina Davidson@davidsonchri15 Dec 2025
Officially marked the end of my PhD @notts_psych 🎉 A lovely day celebrating all the hard work put into @NeurosyncP 🧠 Thanks to @DrSWijeakumar @aimeetheyer @GhadaAmaireh
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