122 datasets found

This project will establish an interdisciplinary network in order to develop strategies for technology-enhanced teaching and learning of 'threshold concepts' in higher...

Dialogue has been shown to be an effective means for the development of pupil learning, critical thinking and reading comprehension. But although recent policies have promoted...

This series of studies aims to examine the ways in which young infants (14 months old) use the emotional expressions of other people to help them learn about the world around...

Imagine that you encounter three events A, B and C that tend to occur together. What are the relationships between A, B, and C? One possibility is that A causes B and B causes...

This interdisciplinary work will develop software to run and evaluate an exciting and innovative 'Interactive Immersive Classroom' called 'SynergyNet'. Critically, whilst...

How do we learn sequences? In some cases people may be aware of the rules that determine a sequence (eg traffic lights), in others not (eg as the current song on a CD ends,...

This study is designed to provide an ecologically valid test of the role of input characteristics on infant word form recognition, the first step in word learning. The input...

The aim of this project is to support children aged 11-14 in coming to understand themselves and their world through a new approach of scripted inquiry learning. With the aid of...

The aim of the research is to provide an empirically based understanding of the Net Generation as they enter university. The research uses a mixture of survey methods, interview...

Learning Lives is a major longitudinal study which aims to deepen understanding of the meaning and significance of formal and informal learning in the lives of adults. What...

The data are gained from a behavioural experiment, for which we adapted the spaghetti tower task, a task that was previously used to test for accumulation of culture in human...

The data collection consists of behavioural measures of performance in laboratory studies in which adults learn to read in novel languages printed in artificial scripts. These...

We investigate the effects of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the share contest a contestant receives a share of the rent...

These data comprise qualitative transcripts from semi-structured individual interviews with eight international experts in social science research methods teaching as part of...

The here presented perceived age data span birth cohorts from the years 1877 to 2014. Since 2012 the database has grown to now contain around 200,000 perceived age guesses. More...

The overall goal of this award was to understand how babies learn when allowed to explore their environment based on their own curiosity, outside the constrained experimental...

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...

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...

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,...

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...