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2024.02.14
The 2023 annual report of the STELLA CHRISTIE research group has been released, detailing the relevant content of the laboratory's research, science popularization, and social services over the past year.
2024.01.25
Professor Stella Christie was invited by the UNICEF Office in China and the Youth Science and Technology Center of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology to shoot the "She · Future" series of short films, "Becoming a Cognitive Scientist," in which she led everyone into cognitive science through analogical thinking experiments.
2024.01.10 - 01.12
The first Bali Music and Brain Science Symposium, led by STELLA CHRISTIE, was successfully held at the Southeast Asia Center of Tsinghua University. Experts and scholars from China, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia, and other regions gathered to share the latest research progress in the field of music neuroscience, jointly explore the relationship between music and the brain, intelligence, and health, as well as the application of music in promoting human cognitive, physical, and mental health. The conference also invited local musicians from Bali to share their practical experiences and engage in in-depth interactions with the attendees, enabling them to gain more cultural inspiration in the unique cultural background of Bali and laying the foundation for further collaborative research in the fields of music and neuroscience in the future.
2023.12.7
Professor Stella Christie was invited to participate in the first Children's Friendly Expo and give an academic speech at the Children's Friendly Cities International Forum.
2023.11.23
The largest newspaper in Indonesia, Kompas, publishes academic exchange work related to Professor STELLA CHRISTIE.
2023.11.23-24
Professor STELLA CHRISTIE was invited by the Southeast Asia Center of Tsinghua University to give a keynote speech at the China ASEAN Forum on Education Leadership and Sustainable Development held in Indonesia. Government officials, experts, scholars, industry practice mentors, and outstanding entrepreneurs from the ASEAN region and China attended the event. Among them, Li Luming, vice president of Tsinghua University, academician of the CAS Member, and Eric Thohir, minister of Indonesian state-owned enterprises attended the meeting.
2023.11.14-16
Invited by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Professor STELLA CHRISTIE participated in the World Scientific Meeting in Bali.
2023.11.10
Zhang Junhao, a master's student from the STELLA CHRISTIE research group, gave a special academic presentation at a lecture in the Brain and Intelligence Laboratory, titled "East west review: Exploring which relational political thinking transfers to relational logical thinking.".
2023.11
Professor STELLA CHRISTIE published an article in Academic Frontiers, supervised by People's Daily, titled "Education Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Should Focus on Cultivating Three Core Abilities"
2023.10.31
Dr. Gao Yang from STELLA CHRISTIE's research group is reporting on his research at the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford University, titled "Why Analogy? Spontaneous Analogy Generation in Parental and LLM Explanations.".
2023.10.18
Dr. Lv Jinyun from the STELLA CHRISTIE research group conducted a research report on "The mechanisms of learning through free play" at the Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Chicago.
2023.10.15
Professor STELLA CHRISTIE delivered a keynote speech at the National Conference on Early Childhood Education held in Jakarta, Indonesia, attended by over a thousand educators, experts, scholars, and government officials.
2023.9.26
Stella Christie's research group has published a popular science article titled "Before Enlightening Children with English, Parents Need to 'Enlighten' Themselves". The author is Wu Yulun, a doctoral student in the Department of Foreign Languages, and the reviewers are Gao Yang, a doctoral student in the laboratory, and Luo Le'an, a doctoral student in the Department of Foreign Languages. The typesetting is Luo Aoxin, a research assistant in the laboratory.
2023.9.13-2023.9.19 Professor Stella Christie, as a member of the Tsinghua University delegation led by President Wang Xiqin, was invited to Bali, Indonesia to meet with the Minister of State of Indonesia.
2023.8.28
Professor Stella Christie presented an academic paper titled 'Explaining with Spontaneous Analogies' at the 2023 EARLI JURE Conference. The corresponding author of the paper is Stella Christie, the first author is laboratory doctoral student Gao Yang, and the participant is laboratory research assistant Que Kexin.
2023.8.23
Stella Christie's research group' postdoctoral researcher, Bai Honghong, gave an oral presentation titled "Creativity in Dialogues: Parents vs. Stringers, who can better support idea generation in children" at the 2023 EARLI Biennial Conference on "The Emergence of Creativity Within and Between Individuals and Its Educational Implications". Postdoctoral Bai Honghong was the first organizer of the seminar and the first author of its oral report, with Stella Christie as the final and corresponding author., Bai Honghong, hosted the Single Paper session "Learning and Developmental Difficiencies: Screening and Assessment" at the 2023 EARLI Biennial Conference.
2023.8.22
Stella Christie's research group' postdoctoral researcher, Bai Honghong, hosted the Single Paper session "Learning and Developmental Difficiencies: Screening and Assessment" at the 2023 EARLI Biennial Conference.
2023.7
Stella Christie's new work, Mandarin-acquiring children's interpretation of presupposition you again, was accepted as a poster paper by the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). The paper discusses Chinese speaking children's understanding of what presupposition "you" is and what meaning it expresses. BUCLD is the largest and most authoritative conference in the field of language acquisition. The first author of the paper is Xu Ting, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University, and the corresponding author is Stella Christie.
2023.7.28
Stella Christie was invited to give an oral presentation at the Relational Learning: Common Signatures Across Four Different Contexts section of the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia. The topic was' Is Rule Learning Like Analogical Reasoning 'to explore the similarities between children's rule learning and analogical reasoning. The first author of the paper is Ma Qiuchen, a doctoral student in the laboratory, and the corresponding author is Stella Christie.
2023.7.28 Stella Christie was invited to serve as the Chairman of the Awards Committee for the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society 2023 held in Sydney, Australia this year.
2023.6.17
Bai Honghong, Gao Yang, and Stella Christie published an article titled "A Little Change Makes a Big Difference: How to Maintain Children's Creativity in the Current Education Environment" in the People's Education magazine's Ideological Library column.
2023.6.17
Bai Honghong was invited to give a report on "The Process and Social Attributes of Children's Creativity" at the 9th National Academic Conference on Creativity Research.
2023.6.3
Stella Christie's research team organized a special activity called "Little Planners" for Children's Day. 160 families from Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei participated in the event.
2023.5.15
Professor Stella Christie visited the Shenzhen Children's Welfare Association and held in-depth discussions with relevant leaders on the work of the "Shenzhen Children's Life Museum".
2023.5.14
Professor Stella Christie was invited by Dongguan Zhongmei Middle School to carry out an academic sharing activity entitled "ChatGPT and People's Future". More than a thousand viewers, both online and offline, watched the lecture.
2023.4.11
Dr. Stella Christie published a science article on the GuoKe WeChat account “清华教授：AI无法替代的人类优势，你的孩子掌握了几个？" It had also been reposted on the Tencent News. Over 100,000 people read this article.
2023.4.11
Dr. Stella Christie was invited by the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University to give a keynote report titled "Relational Learning in Humans and Machine" at the opening Academic Salon of the Intelligent Medical Research Center
2023.4.10
Dr. Stella Christie delivered a speech at the "Spring Festival Opening Season" event, and interacted face-to-face with college students to respond to the life concerns of young people, helping them understand the unknown and explore the future. This event was reported by Xinhua Net, and more than 1.15 million people watched the video.
2023.4.7
Dr. Stella Christie and Ph.D. student Yang Gao published the book "Demystifying Children's Museums to Unlock Children's Learning Potential(《解密儿童博物馆，激发孩子学习潜能》)". This book recently been selected as the “内蒙古自治区幼儿教育用书推荐目录” by the 内蒙古新华发行集团股份有限公司 and 内蒙古自治区幼儿教育研究会
2023.3.26
Ph.D. student Lean Luo published a science article on the Child Cognition Center WeChat account and public website, titled “我的小狮 (xī) 子 (jǐ) 呢？” Should I correct my child's speech?
2023.2
Ph.D. student Gao Yang and Research Assistant Que Kexin presented a workshop paper, "Explaining with Spontaneous Analogies", at the 2023 EARLI (European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction) JURE conference, with the workshop titled "Analogy supports individuals in harnessing the uncertain".
2023.2
Stella Christie Group released the LEGO 2022 white book "Where Global Science Meets Playful Learning: Implications for Home, School, Cities and Digital Spaces, a special focus on China." Master students Huiying Yang and Weiwei Fan are co-authors. Dr. Stella Christie and Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek are corresponding authors, and the other co-authors are from Temple University and Berkeley University.
2023.2
Postdoc Honghong Bai’s workshop proposal “The emergence of creativity within and between students and its educational implications" was accepted by the European EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction) Biennial Conference. Dr. Honghong Bai will present her latest research on creativity: “Parents vs. strangers, who can better support children to generate creative ideas? ".
2023.2
Ph.D. student Yi Zhang published a paper in Acta Psychologica titled "Diversity vs. ingroup: How children generalize for the common good". The paper addresses two questions: 1. Does culture influence the development of analogical reasoning, and are Asian children really better at relational reasoning than Western children? 2. Is the development of analogical reasoning skills universal across domains? Yi Zhang is the second author and the corresponding author is Stella Christie.
2023.2.18
Master student Chanhee Koo published the science article " 'Am I doing this right?' When you ask this question, you're already a good mom/dad!" on the Child Cognition Center's official Wechat account and public website.
2023.2.14
We published 2022 Newsletter
2023.1.16
The second episode "Reinventing the Brain" of the documentary "Deep in the Brain", in which Stella Christie's group participated, premiered on CCTV9 documentary channel.
2023.1.15 - 2023.1.20
The six-episode documentary《Deep in the Brain(大脑深处)》co-produced by Tsinghua University's Brain and Intelligence Lab Child Cognition Center, premiered on CCTV9 from Jan 15 to Jan 20.
2023.1.15
Ph.D. student Jinyun Lv published a science article on the official Wechat Account and public website of the Child Cognitive Center, titled "New Year's Gift Bureau: Have you decided what toys to give your children?"
2022.12
The Jin Xiu Zhi Qiu Park, designed by Dr. Stella Christie in collaboration with Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute, has been successfully completed and is now open to the public. This project is one of the key projects of the all-age friendly park transformation of the Municipal Bureau of Horticulture and Forestry and the Municipal Development and Reform Commission.
2022.12.30
Child Cognition Center organized a workshop called “How to design and conduct child experiments online?”. Lab members shared and discussed their practical experience and techniques in designing and conducting online child experiments.
2022.12.27
Master student Weiwei Fan and Ph.D. student Yanting Li collaborated on a “Science for the Public” article called “Tips to help your child learn languages (for aged 3 and above) – Talk more to the little adult!”
2022.12.22
Postdoc Honghong Bai was invited by the Pre-School Innovation Education Branch of the China Invention Association (中国发明协会学前创新教育分会) to give a talk on “Creative Thinking in Early Childhood: Expression and Cultivation in Daily Family Life.”
2022.12.09
Lab Manager Wenjia Tan was invited to participate in the Frontiers in Teacher Education Neuroscience Research Seminar at Beijing Normal University, where she gave a research presentation.
2022.12.07
Dr. Stella Christie was invited to give a keynote speech titled “The Relational Mind” at the Science and Teaching Forum of the Modern Science and Technology Key Laboratory at Shanxi Normal University.
2022.12.06
Ph.D. student, Yang Gao and Postdoc, Honghong Bai conducted an online sharing activity on the topic of “A dialogue with child development experts: How to Cultivate Children's Creativity and Learning Ability”. This was viewed by over a thousand audiences.
2022.11.23
Professor Stella Christie was invited by the China Children's Museum Education Research Center of Beijing Normal University’s Education Department to conduct an online science popularization activity on the topic of "Talking to Brain Cognitive Scientists: How to Stimulate Children's Learning Potential". More than 1000 parents watched the live broadcast.
2022.11.19
Weiwei Fan, a master's student in Stella Christie's research group, and Yanting Li, a doctoral student in the Department of Foreign Language, co-authored a popular science article titled "Little routines for Language Learning with Children (1-2 years old) --" Open your mouth ", "Move your hands" and "Sing your songs"!
2022.11.17
Dr. Stella Christie was in the panel for G20 Future Education Summit, Bali, Indonesia
2022.10.28 - 2022.10.29
Dr. Stella Christie was invited by the Tsinghua University Research Institute to share her academic work at the Young Scholars Forum of the Tsinghua University's 4th Interdisciplinary Forum.
2022.10.27
Eleven students from Stella Christie's group participated in the Academic Salon of Psychology Department to share their research progress.
2022.10.24
Dr. Stella Christie's collaborative project "Thinking about the common good: A cross-cultural developmental study" was awarded the highly competitive McDonnell Global Incubator Seed Grant. The co-PI is Lori Markson from Washington University in St. Louis.
2022.10.17
Dr. Stella Christie was invited by the Indonesian government to participate as a panelist at the Tri Hita Karana (THK) Forum pre-G20 event "Financing Education: Tackling the Learning Deficit through Digital Solutions".
2022.10.15
Mater student Weiwei Fan and PhD student Yanting Li in the Department of Foreign Language collaborated on the science article "Little Routines for Learning Language with Children (0-12 Months) - "Din ~ ner ~ time "!
2022.10.1
Dr. Stella Christie published the book "Demystifying Children's Museums to Unlock Children's Learning Potential", which was published by Beijing Normal University Press with Ph.D. student Yang Gao.
2022.10.1
Dr. Stella Christie and Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages Ting Xu's abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the international conference, the 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53), entitled Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of you ‘again’ with goal-PPs. The first author of the abstract is Dr. Ting Xu, and the two co-authors are Prof. William Snyder and Prof. Stella Christie.
2022.10.1
Dr. Stella Christie and Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages Ting Xu's abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at the international conference the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022, entitled Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of you ‘again’ with goal-PPs. The first author of the abstract is Dr. Ting Xu, and the two co-authors are Prof. William Snyder and Prof. Stella Christie.
2022.9.30
Tsinghua University Research Institute and Faculty Development Center jointly organized young faculty members to visit Brain and Intelligence Lab to explore exchanges and collaborations. More than 20 young teachers visited this time, they came from the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and School of Aerospace, etc. Yang Gao, a doctoral student, gave a talk about the research philosophy of the center, which is to explore the origin of human intelligence from a developmental and cognitive perspective by studying the behavior and development of children and the mechanisms of human learning. She also introduced the ongoing practical work which extends scientific research to the general public, such as building child-friendly cities and organizing science fairs.
2022.9.24
Lab manager Wenjia Tan organized an online picture book reading activity for children aged 3-5 at a kindergarten in Guiyang, Guizhou. Due to the epidemic in Guizhou, the kindergarten suspended offline classes and switched to online classes. This activity was a fun cultural and scientific experience to the children.
2022.9.5 - 2022.9.7
Dr. Stella Christie went to University of Freiburg, Germany, to attend The Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (KogWis 2022 – Understanding Minds).
2022.9.5
Ph.D. student Yang Gao was invited to share "The Three Greatest Tips for Youth Internet Management" at the Campus Internet Safety Awareness Week in Dongcheng District, Beijing.
2022.8.25
Ph.D. student Yang Gao presented "Analogy use in parental explanation" at the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence Seminar.
2022.8.14 - 2022.08.21
The 5th International Summer School on Systems and Computational Neuroscience (CNeuro2022) opened on August 14 at Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, with Professor Stella Christie as a member of the host committee.
2022.7.30
Ph.D. student Yang Gao issued a paper “Analogy in Parental Explanation” in the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, and an online report is given. Cognitive Science Society as the organizer, brings together researchers from around the world to promote communication in various fields, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and education. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society is the world's top conference in the field of Cognitive Science. The second to fourth authors are laboratory research assistants Ke Xin Que, Zijing Tan and Ph.D. student Yi Zhang. The corresponding author is Stella Christie.
2022.7.20
Ph.D. student Yang Gao was invited by the Beijing Working Committee for the Care of the Next Generation to give a lecture on "Cultivating Resilience in Children's Family Life", and was also the host of the lecture. The lecture was organized by the Beijing Municipal Committee for Caring the Next Generation and was held in Beijing, China. The organizers are Beijing Committee on Caring for the Next Generation and Capital Normal University, with Beijing Family Education Research Center as the co-organizer.
2022.7.14
Ph.D. student Yang Gao was invited by Analogical Minds to give a lecture entitled "Analogy Use in Parental Explanation". Analogical Minds is dedicated to the academic exchange of analogy research and invites researchers in the field of analogy worldwide to share their research results.
2022.7.14
Postdoc Honghong Bai gave a presentation on "The development of divergent thinking in 4- to 6-year-old children" at the European Association for Research in Learning and Teaching's Biennial Conference on Preschool Learning and Development (EARLI SIG 5 2022).
2022.7.11
Postdoc Honghong Bai and Dr. Stella Christie published a new scientific article "How to nurture creativity in early childhood (1): A shift in perception" in the lab's public website and official Wechat account
2022.7.8
Dr. Stella Christie was appointed as a tenured professor at Tsinghua University Art Museum. The appointment news was reported by the official public website of School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University.
2022.7.8
Dr. Stella Christie was invited by Tsinghua University Wudaokou MBA Education Center to hold a parent-child event "Scientific Parenting: Does Summer Vacation Interfere children's study?“ .
2022.6.17
Ph.D. Yang Gao was invited by the People's Government of Mu'ai Town, Yunlian County, Sichuan Province, to give a public welfare lecture on adolescent mental health in response to the 14th Five-Year Plan‘s call to "strengthen children's mental health education and services". During the presentation, Gao Yang had an in-depth communication with teachers and leaders of the school, emphasizing the important role and significance of teachers in adolescent mental health.
2022.6.7
Dr. Stella Christie and Professor Xili Han from Peking University jointly held the first International Conference and Symposium on landscape design and Child-friendly Cities, which invited well-known researchers from home and abroad. At the same time, Professor Stella Christie gave a special report on "Using Cognitive Science to build a Child-friendly City".
2022.6.3及6.4
Lab Manager Wenjia Tan organized a special series of activities for June 1, 2022, "Science at Home". On June 3, the group prepared an online "Little Planner" activity for children, in which children from all over China played interesting science games online, Ph.D. students Jinyun Lv and Yijin Fang, Master students Weiwei Fan and Huiying Yang. On June 4, Postdoc Bai Honghong and Ph.D. student Gao Yang prepared a special parenting lecture for parents, in which they talked about creativity in children and its cultivation, and how parents can help children manage the use of electronic devices.
2022.5.26
Eight students from Stella Christie's group presented their research progress at the Department of Psychology 's 10th academic salon. due to the epidemic, the event was held online.
2022.5.26
Lab Manger Wenjia Tan gave a presentation on "How to better involve administrative staff in institution building and management" on behalf of the group in a series of courses organized by the Institute of Science and Research.
2022.5.16
Dr. Stella Christie was invited by an video creator of 100,000+ followers on Bilibili to a series of interviews on topics like "What is cognitive science", "Are humans smarter than chimpanzees?"
2022.5.14
Ph.D. Yang Gao was invited by the China Children's Center to give a lecture on the theme of "The Benefit of Positive Education to Improve Parents' Educational Literacy" on the official app of China Women's News, the Wechat video account of China Women's News and the Wechat video account of Women's Voice of All-China Women's Federation.

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