Tom Northrop
Tom is a current PhD researcher at ISEY. He is concerned with how children process events as they unfold over time… We know that adults perceive & perform actions as part of a narrative, i.e., with overarching plots (e.g., making tea), embedding sub-plots (e.g., boiling water, brewing tea, adding sugar, etc). It is not known, though, whether young children also process temporal information similarly. Hence Tom’s research covers how preschoolers perceive & generate predictable events.
Prior to PhD research, Tom studied Neuroscience (BSc) at the University of Bristol, and Educational Neuroscience (MSc) jointly at UCL Institute of Education & Birkbeck College.
More broadly, Tom is interested in the science of early learning, and how empirical findings can be translated into educational practices.
