Objective Children raised in families experiencing poverty face significant adversity early in life that puts them at much greater risk of developing learning difficulties. There is a pressing need to develop early screening and intervention strategies that will be cost-effective and easy to deliver in the community. This proposal brings together research in two fields: cognitive neuroscience and the study of infant-parent interaction, aiming to investigate how the socio-economic status of a family and poor cognitive outcomes later in life are mediated by infant’s emerging self-regulation strategies during interactions with parents in the first 12 months of life and follows up their language and communication outcomes at age 18 months. A better understanding of both social and cognitive basis of developmental difficulties those children face will lead to new early screening and possibly intervention strategies. Interdisciplinary, cutting edge eye-tracking and microanalysis of infant-parent interaction methods will be used to study the subject and to delineate the predictors of emerging problems in infant speech, language and communication development. Application work leading to the development of new screening tools and eye-tracking technology will be undertaken in partnership with academics and industry partners. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologycognitive neuroscience Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG - Marie-Curie Action: "Career Integration Grants" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG) Coordinator UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI EU contribution € 100 000,00 Address KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 26/28 00-927 WARSZAWA Poland See on map Region Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Zofia Ciemięga (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data