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ET 1: Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of adaptive control and plasticity

Adaptive mechanisms allow cognitive systems to act in a goal- oriented manner in various contexts, including dynamic and conflictual environments.

Speaker: Simone Schütz-Bosbach

ET 2: Conceptual Development and Conceptual Change

The development of conceptual knowledge during childhood and adolescence and conceptual change in the context of learning and teaching across the lifespan are research focus of this ET.

Speaker: Silvija Markic

ET 3: Emotion, Cognition and Learning

Research on the influence of emotion on cognition and learning represents a new field, which is experiencing a rapid surge of interest at an international level.

Speaker: Anne Frenzel

ET 4: Effective Instruction

Research in this initiative focuses on the basic mechanisms of self-regulation and  the orchestration of self-regulation and other-regulation in learning environments.

Speakers: Stefan Ufer, Birgit Neuhaus, and Martin Fischer

ET 6: Digital Learning

The expertise team encompasses interdisciplinary research projects on the effectiveness of media supported teaching and learning activities from a domain specific and a domain general perspective.

Speakers: Jochen Kuhn, Sarah Hofer

ET 7: Dyadic social interaction: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives

Research of this initiative is concerned with interactional dyadic learning processes and their developmental consequences across life span and different contexts from a psychological, biological and clinical perspective.[picture provided by Gudrun-Holde Ortner]

Speakers: Corinna Reck, and Frank Fischer

ET 8: Statistical Methods for Measuring Learning and Change

The primary focus of this initiative is the advancement of methodology within the Learning Sciences.

Speakers: Moritz Heene and Helmut Küchenhoff