Coordination Funds

研究单位调查语言，（社会）认知和行动的发展轨迹，它们的相互关系和一般认知功能和大脑成熟的关系。在跨学科的方法中，项目中的研究旨在检测这些不同领域的发展以及驱动发展变化的基本认知机制和神经基础的相似之处。进一步的研究旨在确定一个领域的发展进步，为其他领域的发展变化提供跨领域的动力。进一步研究了大脑成熟和一般认知技能（如记忆、注意力和认知控制）对特定能力（如分割、层次结构处理和心理理论）发展的影响。这些问题是在实验研究中与儿童从婴儿期到学龄前的年龄，使用广泛的最近的研究方法，包括行为和神经科学的方法，如fNIRS，ERP和结构MRT在横断面，纵向和培训研究。CROSSING的研究结果将有助于产生一种更全面和综合的人类发展方法，该方法考虑了儿童在早期发展过程中所经历的多个发展链的复杂相互作用。

The Research Unit investigates developmental trajectories in language, (social) cognition and action, their interrelations and relations to the maturation of general cognitive functions and the brain. In an interdisciplinary approach, the research in the projects aims to detect parallels in the development across these different domains and the basic cognitive mechanisms and neural underpinnings that drive developmental changes. Further research is aiming at identifying developmental advancements in one domain that give cross-domain impetus to developmental changes in other domains. The impact of brain maturation and general cognitive skills like memory, attention and cognitive control on the development of specific abilities like segmentation, processing of hierarchical structures and Theory of Mind are further studied. These questions are approached in experimental studies with children from infancy to preschool age that use a broad spectrum of recent research methods covering behavioural and neuro-scientific methods like fNIRS, ERPs and structural MRT in cross-sectional, longitudinal and training studies. The research findings from CROSSING will contribute to the generation of a more comprehensive and integrated approach to human development that considers the complex interplay of the multiple developmental strands that a child passes through during the early development.