The Lund Symposium on Cognition, Communication and Learning April 2019: Registration open!
April 24-26, we are happy to present a CCL symposium at the Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas museum) here in Lund. Registration, information and a preliminary programme can be found at delegia.com/CCL_symposium. Keynote speakers and preliminary titles of their talks: Linda Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA …
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Peter Gärdenfors elected member in IVA, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences is made up of decision-makers and experts from business and industry, academia and public administration. Within the Academy is the collective knowledge and experience of close to 1,300 members divided up into 12 areas of expertise. There are also more than 200 companies …
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Holsanova, Johansson and Åhlander receive FORTE funding
Roger Johansson, Jana Holsanova and Viveka Lyberg Åhlander received a project grant from FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) for a three-years multidisciplinary project ”How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events”. The theoretical aim of the project is to gain a …
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Follow Annika Andersson’s blogs about language learning in Curie!
CCL researcher Annika Andersson, now a senior lecturer at Linné University in Växjö, is now a blogger at Swedish Research Council magazine Curie. Read an interview with Annika here. The article and the blogs linked below are in Swedish. Blir man smartare av att vara flerspråkig? Hur man blir en …
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Zahra Gharaee, PhD!
Congratulations, Zahra Gharaee, who successfully defended her thesis ‘Action in Mind: A Neural Network Approach to Action Recognition and Segmentation’ on April 27. Professor Angelo Cangelosi gave the audience and the examination commitee a nice presentation of Zahras’ work. Zahra’s PhD studentship was funded by a EU grant closely connected …
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Gulz, Haake and Andersson get MAW funding!
Congratulations Agneta, Magnus and Annika!! The Magical Garden – Supporting Early Mathematics for Preschoolers with different Linguistic Backgrounds The proposed project aims to support development of number sense – the conceptual understanding of numbers – in the increasingly larger population of native speaking Arabic preschoolers with Swedish as a second …
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Gulz and Haake receive a grant from the Swedish Institute for Educational Research
Magnus Haake and Agneta Gulz received a grant from Skolforskningsinstitutet together with colleagues at Stockholm University for the project “Digital tools to support learning and formative feedback in the context of early skills in mathematics”. Yet another exciting and fruitful collaboration in CCL! Congratulations!
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Jana Holsanova on audio description at the Gothenburg Book Fair
Jana Holsanova presented research on audio description at the Book Fair in Gothenburg. Keywords: audio description, cognition and communication, language and images, multimodality, relevance, mental imagery Audio description is a means to increase accessibility for people with visual impairment and blindness. Audio describers give verbal descriptions of visual scenes in …
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Peter Gärdenfors (LUCS) announces The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017.
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In the news: Teacher’s voice
Birgitta Sahlén and Viveka Lyberg-Åhlander were interviewed in Sydsvenskan on their research concerning the importance of...
Damon Tutunjian & Marianne Gullberg present poster at CUNY 2013
Damon Tutunjian and Marianne Gullberg presented a poster at the 26th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence...
More than words: What matters in children’s learning
A video from Peter Gärdenfors’ presentation at the CCL conference, March 2013. The presentation shows several...
The role of the teacher’s voice for learning and understanding in children
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Imitation improves writing skills
In the latest LUM, Birgitta Sahlén and Victoria Johansson present results from their research on language...
Agneta Gulz on learning in the 21st century
Agneta Gulz argues in an article in Swedish magazine Axess that the Swedish school system relies...
An Interview with Birgitta Sahlén
A article written by Olle Dahlbäck that featured research at CCL was posted at the faculty...
After work at Berlin Bar
Several important subjects were discussed at a well deserved after work at the newly opened Berlin...
Tänka, språka och lära i tid, 7 mars
Tack alla som deltog i konferensen Tänka, språka och lära i tid såväl presentatörer som engagerade...