Mental Space in Memory through Adversarial Collaboration: Exploring the Origins and the Developmental Course – SPACEODC

mathOP, Ongoing project

2025 – 2029 Humans tend to spontaneously use space in order to think, externally represent (e.g., calendars), and even talk about a variety of non-spatial domains (e.g., time). The general consensus is that mentally spatializing information constitutes a...

The origins and development of the mental timeline

mathOP, Ongoing project

XXXX-XXXX The ability to represent abstract concepts sets humans apart from all other animals. For example, although we cannot see or touch time, we possess rich temporal representations. What enables this cognitive feat? As evidenced by language, gesture, and...

How Domain-general Functions Contribute to the Development of Numerical Competencies – DFCDNC

past project

2018-2022 The project aims at disentangling the differential contribution of domain-general (i.e. inhibition and attention) and domain-specific factors to the development numerical competencies such as mental arithmetic in infancy and childhood. During three...

Geometries Return

mathOP, Ongoing project

2025 – 2029 From the very first months of life, infants possess the ability to perceive the number of items in collections, and can perform simple arithmetic operations on these numerosities. These early intuitions support children’s learning of arithmetic at...

Linking early phonolexical acquisition and later vocabulary development

LangageOP, Ongoing project

Language acquisition is a key aspect of human development, predicting later school achievements. Phonology and the lexicon both start being acquired early, around 6 months of age. In this project, we test the proposal that a crucial milestone in language acquisition...