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Research output per year
Personal profile
Overview
Speech, language, and communication skills are essential to human wellbeing. Currently funded by the Royal Society, my research aims to improve our understanding of neurological disorders affecting these skills through behavioural experimentation and computational modelling, with the goal of improving clinical assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation. I have specific interests in: (i) auditory processing; (ii) the neural population dynamics of neurodivergent learning and cognitive control, and; (iii) resource-rational models of neurodivergent information seeking. Papers, code, and data for all of my projects can be found on my Open Science Framework page.
Teaching and Supervision
- Language and its disorders
- Biological bases of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Methods in cognition and brain research
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
I would be very happy to supervise PhD projects in the areas of (i) variability in auditory perception and language development and (ii) experimental and computational modelling approaches to understanding individual differences in infancy and childhood. Please get in touch via email.
Research Group/s
Cognitive neuroscience institute
Grant Awards and Projects
2024 - The Royal Society, Research Grant. Enhancing developmental speech perception modelling through head and torso simulation. Samuel Jones, PI. £30,896.57.
2023 - UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent and Research Stabilisation Fund. To support the purchase of high-spec computing resources to model the neurodivergent brain and infant and child behaviour. £7,160.
2022 - Co-investigator (with Dr. Kami Koldewyn, Reader, Bangor University, PI). Bangor University Impact and Innovation Award (BUII). Towards a comprehensive Bangor University (BU) service for neurocognitive developmental disorders: Developing a screener for social-behavioural difficulties as a route to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment. £46,582.
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
Postgraduate, PhD, Lancaster University
Award Date: 30 Apr 2020
Postgraduate, MA, University of Nottingham
Award Date: 30 Apr 2017
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Computational rationality and developmental neurodivergence
Jones, S., Rauwolf, P. & Westermann, G., 8 Feb 2025, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Perception and cognitive control in rationally inattentive child behaviour
Jones, S., Jones, M., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 1 Jan 2025, In: Developmental Science. 28, 1, e13587.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may explain developmental language disorder
Jones, S., Stewart, H. J. & Westermann, G., Apr 2024, In: Psychological Review. 131, 3, p. 695-715Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking
Jones, S., Jones, M., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 29 Mar 2024, In: Developmental Science. 27, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking
Jones, S., Jones, M., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 2 May 2023, PsyArXiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Projects
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The Waterloo Foundation report into effective neurodevelopmental assessment
Jones, S. (PI)
1/02/25 → 15/03/26
Project: Research
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Enhancing developmental speech perception modelling through head and torso simulation
Jones, S. (PI)
1/03/23 → 15/09/25
Project: Research
Activities
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The North Wales Speech and Language Exchange
Jones, S. (Organiser) & Wiltshire, C. (Organiser)
17 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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North Wales Speech and Language Exchange (External organisation)
Wiltshire, C. (Chair) & Jones, S. (Chair)
17 Oct 2023 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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Bangor University Community Day - Psychology stall
Lira Calabrich, S. (Contributor), Jones, M. (Contributor), Jones, S. (Contributor), Koldewyn, K. (Contributor), Marí-Beffa, P. (Contributor) & Hadden-Purnell, L. (Contributor)
14 Oct 2023Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may help explain developmental language disorder
Jones, S. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may help explain developmental language disorder.
Jones, S. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk