Projects
Individual Development
This domain investigates the foundations of learning and development including cognitive and social risk factors.
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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.
DERET
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of errors in spelling, to allow different levels of analyses for a heterogeneous population of users.
DYNAMIC Kids
In the DYNAMIC Kids sub-project of the DYNAMIC Center, we are investigating the mental health of children and adolescents using dynamic network analyses. This takes individual processes into account. We aim to provide a better understanding of individual risk and resilience factors, which will serve as a basis for personalized interventions.
DYNAMO
The DYNAMO project investigates the association between fulfillment of basic psychological needs and motivation in children and adolescents. To that end, a measurement instrument shall be developed which allows for assessing these two constructs in these age groups.
erStMaL
The erStMaL project is a long-term study that investigates the development of mathematical thinking in children from kindergarten until the second grade of elementary school by using mathematical situations of play and exploration.
ESKOM-Ü4
The project addresses the educational decision between different tracks of secondary education in German and Turkish-origin families.
FLUX
The project FLUX studies daily fluctuations in children’s cognitive performance in the school context.
FrameWord
The aim of the project FrameWord is to investigate whether mechanisms that were described for visual object recognition – namely, neuronal top-down processing – also apply for visual word recognition.
GeoChild
In diesem Projekt soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, wie grundlegende geometrische Fähigkeiten (z.B. das Erkennen und Kategorisieren geometrischer Figuren oder die Navigation im Raum) im Kindergartenalltag gefördert werden können und welche Lernvoraussetzungen hierfür von Vorteil sind.
GIDeCA
GIDeCA assessed biological and psychosocial family-related influences on the ability to delay rewards and on risky decision-making behavior in children with different ADHD symptoms.