We are excited to share that Pedro Espinosa has been selected as a Young Scholar for the LEVANTE initiative of the Jacobs Foundation. Alongside colleagues Dr. Nancy Palacios Mena and Dr. Salome Amissah-Essel, he received a grant to support their collaborative project investigating how natural variability in physical activity relates to memory and cognitive development in children aged 5 to 7.
The awarded project will contribute to the effort by collecting real-world, longitudinal data from preschool and early school-age children in Colombia and Ghana, aiming to uncover how daily fluctuations in physical activity and environmental affordances—such as access to playgrounds—relate to cognitive outcomes.