Research at the Cognitive Psychology Unit

Major themes of investigation

  • Memory and self across culture.
  • Cross-cultural psychology.
  • Neuropsychology of pain perception.
  • Typical and Atypical Language Development (NASUD)
  • Cognitive approaches to health psychology (list of ongoing projects to be announced):
  • Adolescent, family dynamics and subjective age (list of ongoing projects to be announced).
  • Bilingual children: The link between communicative, cognitive development and socialization.

Main collaborations

Local and National:

Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Acoustic Department at the University of Aalborg; Aalborg Hospital; Center for Qualitative Methods; Center on Autobiographical Memory Research at the University of Aarhus; University of Southern Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Roskilde University; A range of children’s counselling centres (PPRs); NASUD “Typical and Atypical Language Development by Danish preschool and school children”; The PhD research Programme “Human Centered Communication and Informatics” 

International:

Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy; Otto Selz Institute for Psychology and Educational Science; Laboratory for Clinical Psychophysiology, University of Mannheim, Germany; Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, USA; Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Heidelberg University, Germany; Sevilla University, Spain; Osnabrück Universität, Germany; Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
European Research Network (COST A33) “Robust Stages of Children’s Linguistic Performance with the Applications to the Diagnosis of Specific Language” Impairment
European Research Network (COST ISO804) “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” 
  • International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR)
  • International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)
  • Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)