Developmental Cognitive Psychology

Our Lab is Promoting the Study of Psychology

The Federal Employment Agency visited our university and the Laboratory for Cognitive Development to give prospective students insights into psychological research. You can find the video here.

We think the film turned out great. Thank you, Miri and Sonja!

Public Lecture by Professor Lília Cavalcante

On June 6th, guest professor Lília Cavalcante (Federal University of Pará, Brazil) presented her research on 'Ecocultural contexts of child development in the Amazon'.

The lecture marked the opening of the first Austrian-Bavarian Child Development Meeting, which brought together developmental psychologists from Austria and Bavaria here in Regensburg.

Recent Publications

K?ster, M. & Hepach, R. (2024). Preverbal infants' understanding of social norms. Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53110-3

Rezipiert durch FAZ, MDR, ?rzteblatt, Deutschlandfunk und weitere

K?ster, M. (2024)?The theta-gamma code in predictive processing and mnemonic updating. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105529

Bohn, M., da Silva, W., Giner Torréns, M., K?rtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante L., Haun, D., K?ster, M.*, & Kanngiesser, P.* (2024). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts. Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/dev0001688

Bánki, A., K?ster, M., Cichy, R. M., & Hoehl, S. (2024). Communicative signals during joint attention promote neural processes of infants and caregivers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.?doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.10132

K?ster, M., Bánki, A., Yamasaki, D., Kato, M., Itakura, S., & Hoehl, S. (2023). Cross-cultural differences in visual object and background processing in the infant brain. Imaging Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00038

K?ster, M.*, Brzozowska, A.*, Bánki, A., Tünte, M., Ward, E., & Hoehl, S. (2023). Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: a systematic review. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101315

First Newsletter

Dear parents, dear colleagues,

We are very pleased that 100 families have already visited us in the lab in the first few months!

This way, we would like to thank you wholeheartedly for your visit and also express our gratitude to all those colleagues who have supported us in setting up the laboratory.

In addition, we would like to draw your attention to our newsletter, in which we will inform you (from now on once a year) about current publications and news from the Regensburg Laboratory for Cognitive Development.

You can subscribe or unsubscribe to the newsletter at any time (mail to: entwicklungsstudien@ur.de).

Yours sincerely,

Your team from the Regensburg Laboratory for Cognitive Development

Study Participation

Dear parents,

The renovations in our new Lab for cognitive development are completed and we are now starting with our first developmental studies at the University of Regensburg.

We are please to invite you to participate in one of our studies.

To recieve information about our ongoing studies please register non-bindingly using our Online-Formular. We will be in touch with you, as soon as a suitable study is launched.

Fpr an overview on our research topics, please have look here, and for answers to some frequently asked questions can be found here (currently only in German).

With kind regards,

Your team from the Regensburger Labor für kognitive Entwicklung

Our beautiful new Lab... :)

Recent Publications

Xie, S., Hoehl, S., Moeskops, M., Kayhan, E., Kliesch, C., Turtleton, B., K?ster, M.* & Cichy, R. M.* (2022) Visual category representations in the infant brain. Current Biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.016

K?ster, M., Giner Torréns, M., K?rtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante L., & Kanngiesser, P. (2022). Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.07.002

K?ster, M., & Gruber, T. (2022). Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.905837