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Victoria Leong

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Victoria Leong is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research into the neural synchrony between mothers and infants has been widely reported.[1][2][3][4][5] Leong's PhD thesis won the Robert J. Glushko Prize of the Cognitive Science Society in 2014 "in recognition of outstanding cross-disciplinary work integrating neuroscience, psychology, linguistics and computational modelling."[6] She has a dual appointment at Nanyang Technological University and the University of Cambridge[7] and is head of the Baby-LINC Lab at the Department of Psychology at Cambridge.[8] She is a recipient of the 2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council.

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  1. ^ Ghosh, Pallab (November 16, 2016). "Love helps babies' brain development". BBC News.
  2. ^ Bodkin, Henry (March 26, 2019). "Good mothers are literally on the same wavelength as their children". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  3. ^ Care, Adam (January 14, 2018). "Inside the lab where scientists are scanning babies' brains". cambridgenews.
  4. ^ "Parents' brain activity 'echoes' their infant's brain activity when they play together". ScienceDaily.
  5. ^ "Baby Brainwaves Sync Up With Their Mom's". Neuroscience from Technology Networks.
  6. ^ "NTU: Academic Profile: Asst Prof Victoria Leong Vik Ee". research.ntu.edu.sg.
  7. ^ Leong, Dr Victoria (October 30, 2013). "Dr Victoria Leong". www.psychol.cam.ac.uk.
  8. ^ "Dr Victoria Leong — Centre for Neuroscience in Education". www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk.
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