• August 2020: Dr Adam Parker, part of the OSCCI lab at Oxford, has published the initial results of our online laterality experiment. You can read more about it here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sb824  
  • August 2020: Alex Wilson finished his DPhil studies at Oxford – congratulations Dr Wilson! He is moving on to work towards his qualification as a Clinical Psychologist at Newcastle University.
  • August 2020: Dr Emma Karlsson from Bangor University presents at the online North Sea Meeting on Laterality. She gave a talk on her recent work on the lateralisation of body perception in right and non-right handers.
  • July 2020: Work from the COLA consortium is presented at the online meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society. Dr Adam Parker, part of the OSCCI lab at Oxford, gave a talk on our online laterality experiments and presented a poster on the processing of word form in the brain.
  • June 2020: COLA team leader Professor Mairéad MacSweeney from UCL was awarded a £1.6m Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship Renewal grant to study: “Mechanisms of reading development in deaf children”.
  • March 2020: In person experiments were put on hold this year due to COVID-19, but we are currently working on procedures to allow us to continue running experiments safely. Meanwhile, we have been continuing with online experiments.
  • February 2020: The OSCCI team at Oxford have produced a newsletter for 2020 – you can read all about their latest research here: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/files/document-library/oscci_newsletter_2020.pdf.
  • June 2019: COLA met for their second annual meeting at the University of Oxford.
  • June 2018: COLA was set up at a language laterality workshop held at the University of Oxford.