Search for dissertations about: "Cognitive development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 660 swedish dissertations containing the words Cognitive development.

2. 1. Artefactual Intelligence: The Development and Use of Cognitively Congenial Artefacts

   Author : David de Léon; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pervasive computing; affective computing; persuasive computing; Psychology; Psykologi; computer-mediated extrospection; precommitment; self-control; situated cognition; distributed motivation; cognitive ethnography; distributed cognition; cognitive biographies; redesign; task–artefact cycle; artefact evolution; artefact design; task structure; cognitive task; cognitive congeniality; artefactual intelligence; cognitive artefacts; task environment; tools; Cognition; artefacts; ubiquitous computing;

   Abstract : How can tools help structure tasks to make them cognitively easier to perform? How do artefacts, and our strategies for using them, develop over time in cognitively beneficial ways? These are two of the main questions that are explored in the five papers collected in this thesis. The first paper details an ethnographic study conducted on people cooking in their homes. READ MORE

4. 2. Intelligence and models for cognitive development

   Author : Linda Wänström; Daniel Thorburn; Gösta Hägglund; Dag Sörbom; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; intelligence; cognitive development; sample size; multilevel models; latent growth curve models; Statistics; Statistik; statistik; Statistics;

   Abstract : This dissertation focuses on cognitive development. In papers I and II, I study a special model, the second order latent growth curve model, that can be used to study cognitive development. Algebraic expressions for the variance of the estimation of slope differences are given. READ MORE

5. 3. Entrepreneurial competence development : triggers, processes & consequences

   Author : Magdalena Markowska; Johan Wiklund; Friederike Welter; Dimo Dimov; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurial Competence; development; cases; gourmet restaurateurs;

   Abstract : This dissertation, comprised of the cover story and the four separate but interrelated articles, focuses on exploring the development of entrepreneurial competence. Building on the assumption that purposeful engagement in entrepreneurial action potentially leads to the acquisition of specific entrepreneurial competencies, this thesis investigates the mechanisms facilitating and enabling entrepreneurs’ acquisition of entrepreneurial expertise, and the consequences of this process. READ MORE

6. 4. Bilingual education cognitive development and school achievement : a study of the bilingual programs for Tibetan children

   Author : Yu Qiang; Katrin Goldstein Kyaga; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bilingualism; bilingual education; cognitive development; threshold hypothesis; study variable; covariates the third variables ; path analysis; direct effects; total effects.; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

   Abstract : This study examines the effects of two models of school bilingual programs on Tibetan children's cognitive development and school achievement.Based on the findings of empirical studies, Cummins' threshold theory was critically evaluated. READ MORE

7. 5. Development of the Mouse Lateral Telencephalon

   Author : Jan Stenman; Institutionen för experimentell medicinsk vetenskap; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; teratologi; embryologi människa ; Utvecklingsbiologi; ontogeny; embryology human ; teratology; Development biology; progenitor domains; striatum; olfactory bulb; amygdala; development; telencephalon; patterning; mouse;

   Abstract : The telencephalon is the most rostral part of the vertebrate central nervous system and is comprised of a number of structures important for voluntary movements and higher cognitive processes. This thesis focuses on the genetic mechanisms that control development of a number of telencephalic structures: the olfactory bulb, the striatum as well as the lateral and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala. READ MORE