Jannath Begum
After having completed my BSc in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London I am currently undertaking my MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the university. As part of my Masters, I am working on the ‘Tickling Fingers’ study.
Research interests
My ‘Tickling Fingers’ study aims to investigate how children learn to reach across their midlines to pick up objects and how this helps them to learn to locate their hands in space without visual cues or information. During the course of the study, children simply have to carry out three reaching tasks e.g. picking up beans and placing them in a jar with a pair of large tweezers, threading doughnut shaped toys through vertical rods and rolling marbles across horizontal tracks. Following this, we will administer a gentle tactile stimulus to their fingers, which feels like a light tickling sensation, to see if they are able to discriminate between which hand was stimulated and where that hand was located in peri-personal space.