Psychology

Uni-Tots Nursery

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http://www.unitots.psy.ed.ac.uk/index.html

Description

Running very successfully for over thirty-eight years, the nursery is used to support research and teaching in Psychology at 7 George Square. That is, the children regularly take part (individually or in groups) in 'games' which provide important insights for professional psychologists and students into the development of thinking, language and social behaviour in the pre-school years. However, testing may simply involve non-intrusive observation of the children at play.

Recent publications arising from research in Uni-Tots Nursery

  • Ambron, E. McIntosh, R.D. and Della Sala, S. (2010 In Press) Closing-in behaviour in preschool children Cognitive Processing.
  • Ambron, E., Della Sala, S. and McIntosh, R.D. (2009) Animal magnetism: evidence for an attraction account of closing-in behaviour in pre-school children Cortex 45: 278-284
  • Donaldson, M.L. and Cooper, L.S.M. (2009). Children's production of verb-phrase anaphora in a spoken task. Journal of Child Language, 36, 449-470.
  • Donaldson, M.L., Reid, J. and Murray, C. (2007). Causal sentence production in children with language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 42 (2), 155-186. (ISSN 1368-2822)
  • Nash, M. and Donaldson, M.L. (2005). Word learning in children with vocabulary deficits. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 439-458.

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