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Metacognition & Creativity
Nic Chevalier and his research team have recently completed a major project on metacognition and executive function. You...
Elmo\'s verbs!
In English and many other languages we often use the same word for an action and the instrument we use to perform the ac...
Robot talk!
When people are fitted with hearing aids, they find that the sounds they hear are quite distorted, which can make it har...
Music study!
For children aged 6-7, we have a piano playing study in which we teach children to play a simple tune while we look at w...
Dragon study!
For children aged 4-5 or 8-9, we have a study in which children teach our friendly lab dragon to play a memory game or d...
Brain science!
For children aged 5-12 we have a series of studies using exciting machines to understand how your brain works. These mac...
New Newsletter
Many many thanks to all the schools, families and kids who took part in our studies over the last few months! If you\'re ...
Bilingualism and Autism
We’ve just started an exciting new study looking at bilingualism and autism. We will be interviewing bilingual famili...
Wee Science at the Fringe!
Wee Science is going to the Fringe! We\'ll be doing two one-day-only shows at Summerhall during August 2014. On Friday 8t...
How do kids control their actions?
We\'ve just started an exciting study on how children aged between 4 and 7 control their thoughts and actions. This study...

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