Little scientists, social apprentices: Curiosity-driven learning in dynamic social contexts (C04)

• Subject Area: Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454648639

Children are selective about which objects in their environment they pay more attention to and learn more about. This selective attention is likely to be influenced by what their partners in social interactions are currently engaged with. Here, we examine children’s learning of novel word-object associations in tasks, where children can see which objects their partners chose to learn more about and the extent to which such transparent interactions influence children’s exploration of the same objects. The aim of the project is to examine the characterisation of learning as a dynamic interaction between the child and the social context in which learning takes place.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1528: Cognition of Interaction
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Nivedita Mani