
How do babies, children and adults
ACTIVELY
explore and learn about the world?
How
ADAPTIVE
are their active learning strategies?
How are children
DIFFERENT
from each other and why?
How do children navigate the
DIGITAL &SOCIAL
world?
NEWS!
A new publication! | Congratulations to Georgina Török and Nora Swaboda on the (tentative) acceptance of SIPP ("Smart, or just lucky? Inferring question-asking competence from strategies’ efficiency versus effectiveness") in Developmental Psychology! | 12/2022 | |
A new publication! | Congratulations to Kai-Xuan Chai, who just got a paper accepted in Frontiers in Psychology about the inefficient but probably adaptive information-search strategies in preschoolers. The online version is oming soon! | 12/2022 | |
A new iSearcher! | Francesca just joined the team as a Postdoctoral fellow. She's also our Research Coordinator of for iSearch Vienna & Italy. Welcome! | 11/2022 | |
A new publication! | Exited about this article getting out in Current Directions in Psychological Science! Check its online publication "An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning," authored by Azzurra Ruggeri! | 10/2022 |
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Alexandra H.
Research Assistant

Hilal Yilmaz
Research Assistant

Svenja-Kay Haager
Research Assistant

Zeinab Aly
Research Assistant
HERE IS OUR TEAM!

Azzurra Ruggeri
Group leader

Costanza De Simone
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yi-Lin Li
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hande Melis Altunay
Predoctoral Fellow

Francesca Bonalumi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrea Guerri
Predoctoral Fellow

Kai-Xuan Chai
Predoctoral Fellow

Georgina Török
Postdoctoral Fellow

Anushari Wathiyage Don
Predoctoral Fellow

Laura Ziemann
Predoctoral Fellow

Oana Stanciu
Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniil Serko
Predoctoral Fellow

Antonella Battisti
Affiliated Researcher

Björn Meder
Affiliated Researcher

Ben Opitz
Affiliated Predoctoral Fellow

Lara Bertram
Affiliated Predoctoral Fellow
...and our ALUMNI and VISITORS!

Francesca Bonalumi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Serena Fabrizi
Research Assistant

Oana Stanciu
Postdoctoral Fellow

Francesca Rita Digiuseppe
Research Assistant

Marianna Sgherri
Research Assistant

Giulia Santoni
Research Assistant

Emma Rapezzi
Research Assistant
iSearch Vienna & Italy
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