Dr Rebecca Gordon

Bio

Rebecca Gordon is an Associate Professor and Director of the Motor Executive Cognitive Interaction (MECI) Lab at UCL Institute of Education. She is a cognitive psychologist, who is a Chartered Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Management Committee for the Centre for Educational Neuroscience (CEN). She also runs the ESRC-accredited MSc in Developmental and Educational Psychology at UCL. Her research focus is on memory and executive function as it relates to academic outcomes such as reading and mathematics. She is also interested in the relationships between executive functions and dyslexia in children and adults.

Memory

Children who are able to sustain their attention, process information quickly, and maintain that information, generally perform much better in school than children who have deficits in these areas of cognition. In this session we look at how we know what we know about learning and memory, by reviewing developmental neuropsychological evidence (e.g., case studies of people with traumatic brain injury). We then look at how such information might be used in the classroom to develop learning strategies that aid recall, and to understand how children who struggle may be assisted by compensating for specific deficits.

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