Emotional Development

Prof Norah Frederickson, UCL
Prof Mike Oaksford, Birkbeck
Prof Rose Luckin, IoE

Affect interacts with all aspects of development
and education. Neuroscience has studied the brain
mechanisms underlying emotion extensively and
TEL research offers ways of assessing links between
cognitive and affective processes, suggesting the
possibility of objective measures of mood that can
be used with children to evaluate emotions while
engaged in cognitive tasks.

Transdisciplinary question:

Can we use these measures to better evaluate
the emotional conditions that facilitate or impede
learning of particular cognitive skills and the
development of self-regulation within each of
the identified topic areas?