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We are working with local families to understand how early cognitive skills develop in the early years, and how they are nurtured by caregivers.
Understanding Early Cognitive Development
Understanding Early Cognitive Development
We are interested in finding out how key thinking skills develop in the early years and how they can be nurtured. Key cognitive skills, including memory, attention and language develop rapidly during the toddler years but their developmental progression and how they work together is still not fully understood. We want to understand how they develop and how they work together during this critical time of development. For example, does language shape attention or does attention help with language development? Which skills emerge first - memory or attention?
We are excited to work with parents to understand how parents and caregivers support and nurture their child's development. Parents do an amazing job sometimes under challenging circumstances when parenting young children. We want to know the varied things they do and some of the opportunities but also constraints they are under. We want to better understand this so we can advocate for and support parents of young children.
We are also interested in how inequalities arise in development. Social inequality in the UK disproportionately affects young children. School readiness, the ability to benefit from early learning experiences, is important in shaping children's learning opportunities over childhood. Attention and memory may be important drivers of school readiness and learning. However, emerging evidence suggests that social inequality may influence attention and memory. We want to find out if this is the case and if so, how we can help, and also why some children and parents remain resilient to this.
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