Xiangyi Ma
Xiangyi obtained an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from King’s College London and assisted in the UEL BabyDevLab on the ONASCA project, focusing on behaviour data coding, lab testing, and home visits. She completed her dissertation on the relationships between non-verbal vocalization, joint attention, and physiological arousal during infant-mother interactions. Her current interests lie in the neural correlates of music and drama exposure in typically and atypically developing children and how therapy may play a role.
Prior to her MSc, Xiangyi completed her BSc in Life Science in Taiwan at Tunghai University. She engaged in a two-year internship at Taichung Veterans Hospital and conducted a research project aimed at investigating the gut-brain axis by studying the effects of probiotics on depression using animal models. She also worked as a research assistant at Dalian University of Technology in China before coming to the UK.
