Amy Hume
Amy is currently a PhD researcher at ISEY. Her current PhD project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and investigates how the complexity of screen media influences infants' ability to neurally track and process audiovisual content.
Before her PhD, Amy worked as a Junior Research Scientist at the ISLAND Lab (Infant Studies of Language and Neurocognitive Development) at New York University under Dr. Natalie Brito, where she coordinated longitudinal studies of infant and child neurocognitive development and managed data processing pipelines. Some techniques she worked with are remote eye-tracking, behavioural and physiological assessment, and neuroimaging (fNIRS). She contributed to projects examining parent-infant physiological synchrony across the first year of life and the impact of maternal mental health on children's neural and socioemotional outcomes.
Amy graduated from the University of Bath in 2022 with a BSc in Psychology. As part of her degree, she completed a year-long research placement at the ISLAND Lab.
