I joined Swansea University in September 2013. Prior to this I was a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Bangor University. I specialise in child development from early social and cognitive development in babies through to late adolescence. My Ph.D. entitled "The determinants of imitation in infants and young children was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and was supervised by Prof Pauline Horne and Dr. Mihela Erjavec. In the last few years I have started to develop research in the areas of cognitive development during puberty, and the potential influences of video games on adolescents and adults (I currently hold a small BA/Leverhulme grant on this topic). I use many techniques to conduct my research, such as behavioural and observation studies, questionnaire designs and GSR, EEG, and eye-tracking. I am the Director of the Swansea Playlab Areas of Expertise Early imitation Infancy Developmental psychology Cognitive neuroscience Emotion regulation Adolescence

Ellis, C., Kuipers, J., Thierry, G., Lovett, V., Turnbull, O. & Jones, M. (2015). Language and culture modulate online semantic processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20460 doi:10.1093/scan/nsv028 Turnbull, O., Lovett, V., Chaldecott, J. & Lucas, M. (2014). Reports of intimate touch: Erogenous zones and somatosensory cortical organization. Cortex 53, 146-154. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16941 doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.010 Turnbull, O. & Lovett, V. (2012) Bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. In A. Fotopoulou, D. Pfaff & M.A. Conway (Ed.), From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Neuropsychoanalysis. (pp. 186-206). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16942 Erjavec, M. Lovett, V. & Horne, P. (2009). Do infants show generalized imitation of gestures? II: The effects of skills training and multiple exemplar matching training. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 91(3), 355-376. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16943 doi:10.1901/jeab.2009.91-355 Horne, P. Erjavec, M. & Lovett, V. (2009). The effects of modelling, local stimulus enhancement, and affordance demonstration on the production of object-directed actions in 6-month-old infants. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 27(2), 269-281. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16944 doi:10.1348/026151008X297126