Development, Learning and Cognition Group
Research programmes currently in progress include studies of the following: children's cognitive, social, and emotional development in the context of relationships; the social (and parental) influences that shape a child's academic preferences as they enter adolescence; the development of memory and reading abilities; cognitive development in autism and associated disorders; theory of mind; face and emotion recognition; people's ability to exploit and arrange artefacts in their immediate environment to solve problems more efficiently. Research is conducted through an extensive network of collaborating primary and secondary schools in or near Kingston-upon-Thames, as well as in the PRU, which houses purpose-built laboratories.
| Staff member |
Research area |
| Dr Elisa Back |
- Cognitive development
- Social cognition
- Autism, theory of mind
- Face processing
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| Dr Fiona Barlow-Brown |
- Development of blind children
- Reading development (including both print and Braille)
- Moral development; Development of fear and disgust in children
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| Dr Anthony Esgate |
- Ergonomics. Laterality
- Psychology of mathematics. Psychology of music
- Sports psychology
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| Dr Fatima Felisberti |
- Neuropsychology (Attention, Emotion and Face perception)
- Neurosthetics
- Public Understanding of Science
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| Dr Petko Kusev |
- Judgement and decision making
- Memory, categorisation and identification
- Behavioural forecasting
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| Dr Sabira Mannan |
- Visuo-spatial attention and hemi-spatial neglect
- Visual rehabilitation in homonymous hemianopia
- Saccadic eye movements during visual search and real scene inspection
- Cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease
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| Dr Muthanna Samara |
- School and sibling bullying
- Intervention programmes for bullying
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
- Very preterm children
- Infant regulatory problems
- Cross-cultural investigations
- Children of war
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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| Dr Harriet Tenenbaum |
- Children's understanding of science, emotions and social issues (gender, rights)
- Gender development
- Parent-child, sibling and peer interactionn
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| Professor Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau |
- Hypothesis testing, causal reasoning
- Judgment and decision making
- Distributed cognition
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| Dr Jo Van Herwegen |
- Cognitive development in developmental disorders (Williams Syndrome, Autism, SLI, Down Syndrome)
- Language development
- Pragmatics and social development
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| Dr Gaelle Villejoubert |
- Judgment and communication of risk and uncertainty
- Choice, decision-making and risk-taking
- Intuitive and deliberative processes
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