Dr. Jenny Gibson
Jenny is an assistant professor in Psychology and Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. Jenny leads a team investigating the role of play in children’s linguistic, social and emotional development at the centre for research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL). Jenny completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Manchester and went on to do postdoctoral research in the Developmental Psychiatry group at University of Cambridge. Jenny is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and her research is focused on children with autism and developmental language disorders.
Understanding emotions from other people’s faces and from social situations is essential for daily social interaction. But how is that for children with hearing loss? Can they learn to understand emotions just as easily as hearing children?Through a collaboration between Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Otorhinolaryngology (LUMC and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Taiwan), Yung-Ting’s unique eye-tracking studies show that daily "exposure" in the social environment in which emotions take place is essential for the development of this aspect of emotional intelligence. The results are now published in 
