By being the first research to systematically chart the emergence of self-concept and self-memory systems across childhood and the relationship between them, our project will elicit a significant advancement of basic research knowledge.<\/p>\n
The project also has the potential for real world impact, since this knowledge should improve our ability to apply self-memory effects to support learning in educational contexts. The effects can also be used as tools to elucidate clinical developmental disorders. For example, a lack of self-memory effects have previously been used as evidence for a deficit in the self-concept development of children with autism.<\/p>\n
The final strand of our project (supported by a Masters by Research student Zahra Ahmed) aims to apply the self-reference effect to provide an educational intervention for children with\u00a0Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).\u00a0Recent work from Dr. Cunningham’s lab group suggests that applying self-referencing strategies in the classroom in typically developing populations provides learning benefits by increasing student engagement and supporting memory (Turk et al, 2015<\/a>).<\/p>\n We are hopeful that self-referencing strategies may offer a useful intervention for children with ADHD. This population struggles with attention and memory, but are thought to have a typically developing self-concept. An additional aim of this project strand is to check whether children with ADHD show basic self-reference effects. This would support the untested assumption that their self-system functions as in the typical population. Completion of this aspect of the project was supported by follow on research funding from the Carnegie Trust.<\/p>\n Zahra went on to complete a PhD under Dr Cunningham’s supervision, publishing further work on the educational benefits of self-reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By being the first research to systematically chart the emergence of self-concept and self-memory systems across childhood and the relationship between them, our project will elicit a significant advancement of basic research knowledge. The project also has the potential for real world impact, since this knowledge should improve our ability to apply self-memory effects to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/themeinmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}