Children's active learning in a multisensory world

Prof. Dr. Denis Mareschal is a professor of Psychology at the Centre for Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London. In his talk for The Active Child workshop, he presents his work exploring how children select between visual, auditory and haptic/motor information when learning categories in a multisensory world. Prof. Dr. Mareschal’s research interests mainly lie in perceptual and cognitive development in infancy and early childhood.
About TAC workshop
The Active Child workshop (Nov 30-Dec 3, 2021), 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 Children's active learning in a multisensory world канала Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research