Center for Småbørns Kognition

21/01/2026

Last week we took our annual trip to Budapest for our favourite cognitive development conference, where we heard great science, met old friends, and presented many of the studies that we have been doing in the lab over the last year 👶

28/06/2025

The director of our Centre, Prof. Victoria Southgate, was recently awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to study the origins of self-awareness in infants. In the next months, we'll start setting up this project which will invite babies from 3 months to the lab, to try to understand how it is that humans are the only species that likely develops the ability to think about themselves. Not only will the project involve testing babies in our lab at the Department of Psychology, but we will also be trying to get more resolution on neural underpinnings by scanning babies' brains with MRI as well as trying to understand why there are differences across cultures in the construction of the self, by comparing babies in Denmark, with babies growing up in Vanuatu and Japan.

Thrilled and grateful to be awarded one of these, congratulations to all recipients! ❤️ the European Research Council (ERC) and their willingness to support basic, curiosity-driven science in Europe. | 24 comments on LinkedIn

15/05/2025

today the team of post-doc Nicolas Goupil and PI Dora Kampis with the help of many fantastic students and RAs finished the second visit at of the Memory study!

The project had 120 families come back to the second visit at 18 months - for a 2-hour visit each! Impressive achievement for the babies, their families, and everyone involved.

Now we celebrated with a small cake with sun- and rainbow- candles and strawberries with alcohol free bubbles 🙂

Next we will take a short break and then jump into data analysis to begin to process data for the autumn conference season! we are super excited to see the fruit of all the hard work.

Thank you to every family who came or considered joining, to all of our students and RAs who worked tirelessly, and who are joining now to analyse data and plan the next phase!
we will keep you posted on findings along the way, until then, happy summer to Everyone! 🥳☀️

07/02/2025

Babyer til musikforløb på DKDM søges

Kom og syng og dans med din baby på DKDM i foråret 2025.

Et par musikpædagogikstuderende på DKDM afholder et musikforløb for babyer og deres forældre som en del af deres praktikforløb. Til dette søger de forældre til babyer på 2-7 måneder.

🗓️ Tid og sted
Forløbet strækker sig over ni mandage, og hver session varer cirka 40 minutter. Det afholdes på Rosenørns Alle 22, Frederiksberg på følgende datoer:

17. februar 10:30
24. februar 10:30
3. marts 10:30
10. marts 10:30
24. marts 10:30
31. marts 10:30
7. april 10:30
28. april 10:30
12. maj 10:30

Forløbet er gratis, men der forventes derfor også en vis mødestabilitet på ovenstående datoer.

✔️ Tilmelding
Skriv til Rosa på [email protected] og angiv navn og fødselsdato på dit barn. Pladserne tildeles efter først-til-mølle, og du får besked hurtigst muligt.

// ENGLISH //
Babies wanted for music programme at RDAM

Come and sing and dance with your baby at RDAM in spring 2025.
A pair of RDAM students are organising a music programme for babies and their parents as part of their internship. For this, they are looking for parents of babies aged 2-7 months.

🗓️ Time and place
The programme runs over nine Mondays and each session lasts approximately 40 minutes. It is be held at Rosenørns Alle 22, Frederiksberg on the following dates:

17 February at 10:30 am
24 February at 10:30 am
3 March at 10:30 am
10 March at 10:30 am
24 March at 10:30 am
31 March at 10:30 am
7 April at 10:30 am
28 April at 10:30 am
12 May at 10:30 am

The course is free of charge, though a certain stability in attendance is expected.

✔️ How to sign up
Write to Rosa at [email protected] and state the name and date of birth of your child. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and you will be notified as soon as possible.

28/01/2025

New work authored by Dora Kampis, Victoria Southgate and Dimitris Askitis now out in Cognition, showing an altercentric bias in 14-month-old infants' memory. Using an EEG measure of semantic mismatch, we show that they remember better the identity of an object as it was seen by someone else, than as it was seen by the infant alone.

link to article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725000149

15/01/2025

If January, then BCCCD! Our team participated with several posters - we managed to take photos of some, but not all :) list of posters below, photos attached, BCCCD was great as always!

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Cécile Gal & Katarina Begus: Error-monitoring in 12-month-old infants: a stepping stone for metacognition & self?

Nicolas Goupil, Louise Lund Petersen, & Dora Kampis: Parental input involving perspective coordination in 12-month-old caregiver-infant dyads

Nicolas Goupil & Dora Kampis: Building blocks of episodic memory: relational binding at 12 months

Velisar Manea, Emanuela Yeung, Dimitris Askitis, Helle Lukowski, Nicole Lønfeldt, & Victoria Southgate: The developmental trajectory of the infant altercentric bias

Elisa Wiedemann, Louise Lund Petersen, Karen Victoria Willumsen Nustad, & Dora Kampis: Does interpersonal synchrony affect 18-month-olds’ self-other alignment?

01/11/2024

Our very own Prof. Victoria Southgate has been awarded a grant from the Danish Independent Research Fund, on the origins of self-awareness in infants. Congrats, Vicky! 🥳🎊🎈

This exciting project will aim to uncover the link between self-awareness at 18 months with very early bodily signals in 3-month-old infants. 👶

you can read more about the project here:

How do infants become aware of their own existence? Professor Victoria Southgate aims to answer this question in a new project supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

28/10/2024

Last Friday the Department of Psychology held an Open Day for research, and our lab participated as well.

it was great to talk to students about our work, and also see what our colleagues do - even Svend the chimp took part with his fNIRS net! :)

we only took two pictures as otherwise everyone was busy talking to the visitors - next time we'll document better 🥰