Project relations

• fEC Code: LUCID: The ESRC Centre for Language and Communicative Development

  Project: Research

Activities

• LuCiD Sleep Workshop

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Lab Tour and Knowledge Exchange for Lancashire County Council Network Of Outstanding Providers

  Activity: Expert Knowledge and Consultancy types › Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public

• Lancaster Music Festival

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Research outputs

• Some thoughts on curiosity in infants and neural network models

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Age of acquisition predicts rate of lexical evolution

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Theta- and alpha-band EEG activity in response to eye gaze cues in early infancy

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The fixation distance to the stimulus influences ERP quality: an EEG and eye tracking N400 study

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation of non-adjacent dependencies from continuous speech

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation from nonadjacent dependencies

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• How do high frequency words help language acquisition?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech

• How word meaning influences word reading

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• German children’s use of word order and case marking to interpret simple and complex sentences: testing differences between constructions and lexical items

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Children’s understanding of first and third person perspectives in complement clauses and false belief tasks

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Children’s referent selection and word learning: insights from a developmental robotic system

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Arbitrariness, iconicity, and systematicity in language

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Literature review › peer-review

• How do high frequency words help language acquisition?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• Lexical distributional cues, but not situational cues, are readily used to learn abstract locative verb-structure associations.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Preemption versus entrenchment: towards a construction-general solution to the problem of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• What's on the inside counts: a grounded account of concept acquisition and development

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Book Review: Brian MacWhinney & William O’Grady (Eds.), The handbook of language emergence

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• A neural network model of curiosity-driven categorization

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper

• Using statistics to learn words and grammatical categories: how high frequency words assist language acquisition

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Using statistics to learn words and grammatical categories: how high frequency words assist language acquisition

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• High frequency words assist language acquisition

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• High frequency words can help language acquisition

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech

• How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• How do high frequency words assist language acquisition in 12-month-olds?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• A learned label modulates object representations in 10-month-old infants

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• A neurocomputational model of the effect of learned labels on infants’ object representations

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Domain-general mechanisms for speech segmentation: the role of duration information in language learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The effect of shyness on children's formation and retention of novel word–object mappings

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Neurocomputational models of cognitive development and processing: 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Lancaster University, UK, 21 – 23 August 2014

  Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book

• Sleep-driven computations in speech processing

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Sensitivity to structure in action sequences: an infant event-related potential study

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The human fetus preferentially engages with face-like visual stimuli

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Learned labels shape pre-speech infants’ object representations

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Extraneous visual noise facilitates word learning

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Computational Exploration of Lexical Development in Down Syndrome

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Curiosity-based learning in infants: A neurocomputational approach

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• All the Right Noises: Background Variability Helps Early Word Learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Production is only half the story — First words in two East African languages

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The effect of background variability on referent selection in fast mapping tasks: evidence from eye movements

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster

• The changing role of sound symbolism for small versus large vocabularies

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Links between action perception and action production in 10-week-old infants

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Early Word Learning

  Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book

• Computational models of word learning

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

• First Language Acquisition

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

• Combining Language Corpora With Experimental and Computational Approaches for Language Acquisition Research

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Review article › peer-review

• Developmental psycholinguistics teaches us that we need multi-method, not single-method, approaches to the study of linguistic representation

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Editorial › peer-review

• Response to Scheel et al.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Fourteen-Month-Old Infants Track the Language Comprehension of Communicative Partners

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Mark my words: High frequency marker words impact early stages of language learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Neurocomputational models capture the effect of learned labels on infants' object and category representations

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Taking their eye off the ball: How shyness affects children’s attention during word learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Grammar

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• The biological basis of social cognition during development

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Editorial › peer-review

• Changing Signs: Testing How Sound-Symbolism Supports Early Word Learning

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Simulating Bilingual Word Learning: Monolingual and Bilingual Adults’ Use of Cross-Situational Statistics

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Building the foundations of language: mechanisms of curiosity-driven learning.

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter

• A single paradigm for implicit and statistical learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Testing the limits of non-adjacent dependency learning: Statistical segmentation and generalization across domains

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Exploring variation between artificial grammar learning experiments: Outlining a meta-analysis approach

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Editors' introduction: Aligning implicit learning and statistical learning: Two approaches, one phenomenon

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Editorial › peer-review

• The limits of infants’ early word learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Investigating the association between children’s screen media exposure and vocabulary size in the UK

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Curiosity and Exploration

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The role of auditory perceptual gestalts on the processing of phrase structure

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

• Environmental effects on parental gesture and infant word learning

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Two-year old children preferentially transmit simple actions but not pedagogically demonstrated actions

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• “I don’t know but I know who to ask”: 12-month-olds actively seek information from knowledgeable adults

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, Vol 3: Cognition in Childhood

  Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book

• Distinctions in the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar: An individual differences approach

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Speech Intonation Induces Enhanced Face Perception in Infants

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Interactions between givenness and clause order in children's processing of complex sentences

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The role of animacy in children’s interpretation of relative clauses in English: Evidence from sentence-picture matching and eye movements

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Infants’ conceptual representations of meaningful verbal and nonverbal sounds

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Learning vocabulary and grammar from cross-situational statistics

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Exploring the "anchor word" effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Children's scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18-month-old children

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Adapting to children’s individual language proficiency: An observational study of preschool teacher talk addressing monolinguals and children learning English as an additional language

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Semantic systems are mentalistically activated for and by social partners

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Statistically based chunking of nonadjacent dependencies

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Does Evidentiality Support Source Monitoring and False Belief Understanding?: A cross-linguistic study with Turkish- and English-speaking children

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The role of the Natural History Museum in promoting language word learning for young children

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The acquisition of English modal constructions: A corpus-based analysis

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants’ object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• A Unified Approach to Demographic Data Collection for Research with Young Children Across Diverse Cultures

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Putting Complement Clauses into Context: Testing the Effects of Story Context, False‐Belief Understanding, and Syntactic form on Children's and Adults’ Comprehension and Production of Complement Clauses

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Language outcomes from the UK-CDI Project: can risk factors, vocabulary skills and gesture scores in infancy predict later language disorders or concern for language development?

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Infants’ attention during cross-situational word learning: Environmental variability promotes novelty preference

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Better early than late: The temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Can 3-year-old children learn verbs using an educational touchscreen app?

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• The limits of curiosity?: New evidence for the roles of metacognitive abilities and curiosity in learning

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review