Social Development: Example Project

   

 

 

Example project:
Social Cognitive Development


Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, UCL
Prof Jay Belsky, Birkbeck
Prof Mark Johnson, Birkbeck
Prof Tony Charman, IoE
Dr Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, IoE

Objectives:

  • To trace the development of social cognition of typically-developing children and adolescents
  • To investigate individual differences, including gender differences, in social cognitive development
  • To study how individual differences in social brain function affect the schooling process and, reciprocally, how schooling experiences affect individual differences in social brain function.
      Brain Scan
      Significant reduction in grey matter volume
      in social brain regions between 4 and 21
      years (Gogtay et al. 2004).








  • EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    NEUROSCIENTIFIC METHODS
    COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF LEARNING AND TEACHING
    CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
    SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
    LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
    MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT
    ATTENTION AND EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT
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