Conal Wrigley holds a BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology and is currently undertaking an MA Applied Psychology degree in the University College of Cork.

Conal has worked on previous NBRG projects, in particular the development of a European survey to identify treatment practices of neonatal seizures by neonatologists and paediatric neurologists (NEMO Survey), the BRANE-Child project (Brain Research After Neonatal Encephalopathy) and database development for the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT).

As part of his dissertation, Conal is investigating the application of a digitalised touchscreen-based measurement of executive functioning in toddlers under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Murray. This project aims to investigate working memory deficits in toddlers. The INFANTapp will be compared to previously standardised tests and tasks of executive functioning to investigate the validity of the application in a non-clinical population.

Email: c.wrigley@ucc.ie