Information seeking in infancy

Dr. Katarina Begus was our first speaker for The Active Child Workshop to give us a talk and workshop about information seeking in infants, and about theta oscillations in the brain and how it us utilised to study active learning in young children. Dr. Begus is a PostDoc at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her primary research interests lie in transmission of cultural knowledge between adults and infants, with the focus on the infant as an active participant in the selection of information to be learned.
About TAC workshop
The Active Child workshop, organised by the University of Göttingen and Uppsala University, aimed to bring together diverse perspectives on how young children selectively explore particular aspects of their rich environment and steer their own learning progress, with regard to the theories explaining how children contribute to their learning. It addressed the mechanisms that support active learning, and the methods that can be used to study this phenomenon. This series of talks and workshops covered varied topics such as the development of children’s active learning, the neurophysiological markers of active learning, the philosophy of curiosity-driven learning as well as the motor and socio-cognitive developmental milestones that underlie children’s active exploration.

Видео Information seeking in infancy канала Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research