The Language and Cognitive Development Research Group is led by Dr. George Spanoudis and encompasses wide expertise in areas including language development and understanding, and cognitive development in typical and atypical populations. Our work bridges ideas and methods generated within developmental, cognitive and differential psychology.

The primary focus of the group is to explore the neural bases of language and cognitive development from 4-18 years of age, combining cross-sectional and longitudinal cognitive research with neural imaging (EEG/ERPs) to study typical and atypical cognitive and language development. Our research program is extended on issues of language processing and learning, theory of mind development, and cognitive correlates of developing intelligence. The group has developed new theoretical models of cognitive development and relates them with evidence coming from neuroimaging data.