International Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics has been established at the Department of Psychology of Tomsk State University. Tomsk State University has been awarded a major grant from the Government of the Russian Federation (11.G34.31.0043) to set up this Laboratory. The Laboratory is led by a British researcher Dr Yulia Kovas who is the director of the International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning (InLab) at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The aim of our research is to provide new insights into understanding the origins of individual differences in learning, motivation, ability and achievement with a particular focus on mathematical development. Our research is international and interdisciplinary and is a joint effort of psychologists, quantitative and molecular geneticists, mathematicians, educational psychologists from Russia, UK, Canada, USA, China involving the research group of the Russian-British Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education and the team of InLab as well as other international partners.
Current research projects: • • • • • •
Establishment of the Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR). Behavioural genetic investigation of mathematical abilities and cognitive characteristics. Cross-cultural investigation of mathematical abilities and cognitive characteristics. Molecular genetic and genomic investigations of cognitive characteristics of learners with different levels of mathematical abilities. Cognitive neuroscience investigations of educationally relevant traits. Cognitive research in education.
Contacts and further information: Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioural Genetics http://cogbglab.tsu.ru E-mail:
[email protected] Director: Dr Yulia Kovas
Deputy Director: Olga Bogdanova, PhD
