Coordination Funds

该研究股调查语言、（社会）认知和行动的发展轨迹，它们之间的相互关系以及与一般认知功能和大脑成熟的关系。在跨学科的方法中，研究项目旨在发现这些不同领域发展的相似之处，以及驱动发展变化的基本认知机制和神经基础。进一步的研究旨在确定一个领域的发展进步，这些进步可以跨领域推动其他领域的发展变化。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分割、层次结构加工和心理理论等特定能力发展的影响。这些问题是在从婴儿期到学龄前儿童的实验研究中解决的，这些研究使用了广泛的最新研究方法，包括行为和神经科学方法，如fNIRS， erp和结构MRT的横断面，纵向和训练研究。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，该方法将考虑儿童在早期发展过程中所经历的多种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.