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LEECHI
The aim of the project is to better understand how information is distributed in the children’s naturalistic environment and sampled by young children from their first-person perspective with modern technologies including wearable devices and deep learning models.
SelKi
Self-regulation is an important prerequisite and a good predictor of later school performance, social-emotional development and mental health. However, there is no psychometrically validated test battery for measuring self-regulation in German-speaking countries. The aim of the project is therefore to develop, psychometrically test and standardise such a test battery.
KonText
The KonText project investigates how grammatical features of texts and individual characteristics of readers (e.g. multilingualism) influence text comprehension. The focus is on the comprehension of linguistic means of indicating basic sequential relationships, so-called causal connectors (e.g. because, since, therefore). The project aims to find out (i) whether explicit labelling of causal relations facilitates text comprehension, (ii) for which causal connectors this is true, and (iii) which students benefit from this.
AHKi
The AHKi project aims to investigate which early temperamental characteristics and cognitive abilities can be used to identify which children are at risk of developing ADHD symptoms.
GoThink
Das Projekt untersucht, wie das Ausführen von ikonischen Gesten während der Satzverarbeitung das logisch-abstrakte Denken bei Kindern im Grundschulalter unterstützt, und welche Rolle dabei das Arbeitsgedächtnis spielt. Der inhaltliche Fokus liegt auf der Verarbeitung von Sätzen mit dem Zahlausdruck „einige“, in denen verschiedene Mengen in Bezug zueinander gesetzt werden (“einige”,…, “alle”). Die Ergebnisse des Projekts bieten Anknüpfungspunkte für Förderkontexte im Grundschulalter, die
DELTA
In the project DELTA we apply a working memory training with elementary school children. We investigate the impact of children’s daily experiences on training success, with a focus on motivation, well-being, and sleep on training days.
MoBiLe
The project investigates the role of language and executive functions in cognitive and academic development of elementary school children. The focus is on the comparison of monolingual and bilingual children (especially children from immigrant families), who often differ in terms of their language abilities as well as their academic achievement.
UPWIND
The project UPWIND investigates associations of affective, motivational, and cognitive processes in students. It specifically targets differences between children that can inform easily implemented interventions that can be tailored to individual students.
RESI
The project RESI investigates the relationship between individual cognitive variables and arithmetic strategies in primary-school children.
META-EF TRAIN
The project investigates the effects of metacognitive executive function training in children from low socioeconomic backgrounds with an emphasis on transfer to academic abilities. Children are recruited in Germany and the UK to ensure greater generalizability. We focus on two age groups (4-6 vs. 8-10 years) to examine whether there is a developmentally sensitive period for cognitive training interventions.