H2020Докторантска мрежа2018–2022

MOTION · Mobile Technology for Infant Social-Cognitive Neuroscience: Interdisciplinary Training Network for Innovative Infancy Research

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2018-01-01 → 2022-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС
3 685 396 €
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9
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Накратко на български

Социалното и когнитивно развитие на деца до тригодишна възраст се проучва чрез носими технологии, които следят мозъчната им активност в естествена среда. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на процесите, които влияят върху бъдещото благополучие на детето.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Mobile Technology for Infant Social-Cognitive Neuroscience: Interdisciplinary Training Networkfor Innovative Infancy Research

The first three years of life are critical for a child’s future development. Researchers and policy makers both stress that the first three years of children’s life have more impact on their future outcomes than any other period during their life. The time up to toddlerhood thus forms a unique window of opportunity for “getting it right”. It is therefore essential for the future prosperity and well-being of the European Union and its citizens that we have a thorough understanding of human social and cognitive development during this time window. In the past, experimental research on the social and cognitive development of young children has had to rely heavily on studying infants and toddlers within restricted, artificial laboratory contexts. However, studying development in such highly constrained situations involves the risk of producing knowledge that is only marginally relevant to the real-life phenomena one is actually interested in . In order to fully understand early development, young children need to be studied in their natural social and physical environment. Fortunately, recent advances in wearable and wireless technologies now provide us with a unique opportunity to do this: We are now able to literally “unleash” the children we study – to free them from the cables and constraints associated with the previous lab-based methods of monitoring their behaviour and brain activity. These technological advances offer the possibility of examining how infants and toddlers actively explore their natural physical and social environments of their own accord.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Recent international reports emphasize that the first three years of children’s life have more impact on their future outcomes than any other period during life. It is therefore essential that we have a thorough understanding of early social and cognitive development. In the past, experimental research that has fed our knowledge on early development studied infants within restricted, artificial laboratory contexts. However, only by studying children who are actively engaging in natural interaction with their social and physical environment, we can acquire ecologically valid, robust information about their social and cognitive development. It is thus essential to move experimental infancy research towards more natural situations. In doing so, MOTION will train a new generation of highly-skilled experts in the field of early development.New advances in wearable and wireless technologies now provide us with a unique opportunity. We are able to literally ""unleash"" the children we study – to free them from cables and constraints associated with the previous research methods. The primary scientific aim of the MOTION project thus is to leverage these new technological advances to study infants’ and toddlers’ body movements, gaze direction, and brain activity as they spontaneously and actively explore the world around them. MOTION will develop, produce and commercialize new tools to study early development in close cooperation between industry and academic partners. Innovative research tools will be used to investigate infants in natural interaction with their social and physical environment and gain a deeper understanding of early development. In addition to disseminating the new tools and research findings among the scientific community, it is the explicit aim of MOTION to reach out to professionals and the public, educate them about early development and instigate an open dialogue between professionals working with young children and developmental researchers.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз