Press and Media
2024
Podcast on my research on the development of cognitive control/executive functions, maths and educational neuroscience.
https://omny.fm/shows/psychtalks/pyschtalks-s3-e06-iroise-dumontheil-44-1k-16b-mast
Interviewed about on the impact of noise on brain development.
2023
Interviewed about on the impact of AI on education.
2022
Interviewed about our recently published paper on a comparison of the impact of mindfuless meditation training in adolescence and adulthood for PsyPost.
Original paper: Dumontheil I, Lyons K, Russell T, & Zelazo P. A preliminary neuroimaging investigation of the effects of mindfulness training on attention reorienting and amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adolescent and adult females. Journal of Adolescence (in press). Full report available here.
Interviewed for a follow up of report suggesting we spend an increasing number of hours using apps on our phones, for Dazed.
2021
2018
Interview for The EdTech Podcast on Self-Directed Learning in Adolescence
BBC London News interview on gaming addiction during adolescence
2017
Discussion and Q&A for Wellcome Collection Packed lunch
2016
Panel discussion on BBC Radio 3 (starts at 00:31:00 roughly).
2015
Interviewed on BBC Radio wales (starts at 02:52:20) to discuss a recently published paper.
Interviewed for a BBC world service radio programme on Mindfulness.
Interviewed for a Channel 4 news programme and discussion on the use of smartphones during adolescence.
Commented on a Pediatrics publication for an article in the Independent.
2014
Video interview after Wellcome Science Media Centre press briefing on Does internet use change teenage brains? following Kate Mills' publication (TICS, 2014).
Commented on a publication in Pediatrics for an article on the BBC website.
2013
Podcast associated with my Skeptics in the Pub talk in Cambridge.
2012
Article by Claire O'Connell in the Irish Times.
Interview by the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia at the occasion of a talk given at the XIX Tribuna Edu21: Education and learning during adolescence.
Interview by the Catalan radio 3/24 at the same occasion, and by TV3.
2010
Articles in the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Guardian, and interview on Radio New Zealand, following the publication of Dumontheil et al., Journal of Neuroscience (2011), 23(1):168-182.
2009
Speaker at the Rewired Teens? event of the dana centre, organised by the Science Museum.
Organiser of The teenage brain - a work in progress exhibit at the Royal Society with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore's lab.
Article in the New Scientist following the publication of Dumontheil, Apperly & Blakemore, Developmental Science (2010) 13(2):331-338.