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Religious nurture in Muslim families
This research project aimed to describe and explain how children of primary school age and under are brought up to be Muslims. The project began with secondary quantitative... -
Opportunities afforded by the outdoors for alternative pedagogies as children...
This project aimed to find out how being outdoors changes teaching and learning in Year 1. Four classes in two urban schools (involving children aged 4-6 years old) were... -
Cross-cultural study of family influences on executive functions in late chil...
Recent advances in developmental cognitive neuroscience suggest a link between executive functions (EF) and school achievement, above and beyond the contributions of... -
Cross-cultural study of family influences on executive functions in late chil...
Recent advances in developmental cognitive neuroscience suggest a link between executive functions (EF) and school achievement, above and beyond the contributions of... -
Vocabulary and reading in secondary school: Evidence from longitudinal and ex...
Data are archived for three studies. The longitudinal study tracked oral vocabulary and reading development in across late childhood and early adolescence, from ages 12 to 14... -
Shared book reading and the development of phonological awareness 2016-2018
Shared book reading has been demonstrated to be an effective way to promote children’s language including preparation for literacy: children who are read to regularly, on... -
Life course and family dynamics in a comparative perspective 2002-2010
We used large-scale and nationally representative household survey data to explore the experience of individuals and families in China, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.... -
Curiosity-based learning in infants: a neurocomputational approach, experimen...
Infants are curious learners who drive their own cognitive development by imposing structure on their learning environment as they explore. Understanding the mechanisms by which... -
Evidence for systematicity in infant and toddler curiosity-driven learning 20...
The study is an eyetracking experiment run with 12- and 28-month old children and adults. Participants from each age group were randomly assigned to a label or no-label... -
The UK communicative development inventory database: words and gestures ages ...
We piloted a version based on data from various Babylabs, selecting words for which comprehension significantly increased with age over this range, thus eliminating several... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Input and In...
Many Western industrialized nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development in... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Learned Labe...
Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In this study 10-month-old infants were trained over the course of a week with two 3D... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: All the Righ...
Eyetracking data collected from two-year-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In the current study we tested whether background variability could boost word learning in a... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Beyond Words...
Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli. In the current study, parents read their infants a storybook containing multiple exemplars from two novel object... -
Early childhood development and disability in Malawi, a mixed methods study 2...
This mixed-method study sought to share evidence that would aid the Malawi government and other stakeholders to better understand the complex dynamics that ‘enable’ or ‘inhibit’... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Training Stu...
A central question in language acquisition is how children master sentence types that they have seldom, if ever, heard. Here we report the findings of a preregistered,... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Multiple Cu...
It has long been claimed that the child’s experience of language is not sufficient to enable them to learn language, and so language structure must be innate and internal to the... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Defaulting E...
This paper describes an extension to the MOSAIC model which aims to increase MOSAIC’s fit to the cross-linguistic occurrence of Optional Infinitive (OI) errors. While previous... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: A Computatio...
We present a computational model of the acquisition of German case that is evaluated against empirical data obtained from naturalistic speech. The model substitutes nouns into... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Using a Deve...
We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We embed the mechanism for distributional analysis within an existing model of...