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

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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...

Recognition of faces at birth

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Hearing development and speech perception in noise in children with cochlear implants

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Development of speech perception in noise

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From object perception to tool use in early infancy

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Constructing Mathematical Knowledge beyond Core Intuitions (MathConstruction) 

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2011-2016 Our perceptual system permanently encodes numerical and geometric information from the surrounding world. These intuitions, present from an early age, may serve as a basis for the acquisition of mathematical knowledge. However, primitive intuitions remain...