Research Group Learning in Early Childhood

Our lab explores the developmental origins of intelligent behavior.

Key questions are:

  • How do we learn to understand information? (e.g. language, letters, numbers)
  • How do we build mental models of our experience? (e.g. a mental lexicon, a quantification system)
  • How do we learn to use these models for intelligent actions? (e.g. problem solving)

We conduct brain imaging studies with children from all over the world.

 

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Key publications:


Skeide, M. A.; Wehrmann, K.; Emami, Z.; Kirsten, H.; Hartmann, A. M.; Rujescu, D.; Legascreen Consortium: Neurobiological origins of individual differences in mathematical ability. PLoS Biology 18 (10), e3000871 (2020)
Skeide, M. A.; Kumar, U.; Mishra, R. K.; Tripathi, V. N.; Guleria, A.; Singh, J. P.; Eisner, F.; Huettig, F.: Learning to read alters cortico-subcortical cross-talk in the visual system of illiterates. Science Advances 3 (5), e1602612 (2017)
Skeide, M. A.; Friederici, A. D.: The ontogeny of the cortical language network. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17, pp. 323 - 332 (2016)
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