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Tsvyata Donova, Postgraduate Research Student

Contact Details

Email: tdonova02@qub.ac.uk

Year: 3rd (from 2012-2013)

Project Details

First Supervisor: Prof Teresa McCormack

Second Supervisor: Dr Aidan Feeney

PhD Title: Episodic future thinking in pre-schoolers

Summary of Project: I am looking at the exact age children are capable of foreseeing the solution to a future problem using their imagination. The project also plans to look at the co-occurrence of episodic future thinking and a few other abilities emerging at the 3-5 age range.

Research Cluster: Developmental, Educational

Research Interests

I am interested in the concept of intelligence, creative thinking and insight. I've also been involved in a few projects relating to the effectiveness of literacy intervention programmes designed to improve the engagement of young children in reading.

Conferences

Annual Psychology Conference in the School of Psychology- 2011
Student Congress- 2011

Additional Information

The following diagram depicts the areas of the brain that are involved in different elements of episodic future thinking, e.g. scene-based information or scene manipulation.