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To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose
Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing’s properties if it’s in a certain
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Maarten Vansteenkiste
Ghent University, Belgium www.vopspsy.ugent.be/en/developmental-psychology/maarten-vansteenkiste.html www.selfdeterminationtheory.org What does your research focus on? I focus on motivational dynamics in my research. I am to understand how different reasons for engaging in an activity and pursuing different goals
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Kimberly Noble
Columbia University, USA http://www.needlab.cumc.columbia.edu/ What does your research focus on? I study socioeconomic disparities in children’s neurocognitive development. Specifically, we’ve known for decades that there are broad differences in children’s cognitive development and academic achievement
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Jeffrey D. Karpicke
Purdue University, USA http://learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/ What does your research focus on? Research in my laboratory sits at the interface between cognitive science and education. Our research has been especially focused on the importance of retrieval
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Greg Walton
Stanford University www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Welcome.html What does your research focus on? One of my main interests involves how the important contents of people’s selves — like their interests, motivations, and emotions — which people tend to think
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Gaia Scerif
University of Oxford, UK http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/abcd/index.html What does your research focus on? We live in complex multimodal environments, and yet even as infants we direct attention very efficiently to select what is relevant into memory, learning