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Professor Gert Westermann

Professor, Head of Department

  1. Published

    Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking

    Jones, S. D., Jones, M. W., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 31/07/2024, In: Developmental Science. 27, 4, e13492.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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  3. Published

    Self-production facilitates and adult input interferes in a neural network model of infant vowel imitation.

    Warlaumont, A., Westermann, G. & Oller, D. K., 2011, Proceedings of AISB 2011: Computational Models of Cognitive Development. Guerin, F., Alexander, J., Kazakov, D. & Tsoulas, G. (eds.). Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, p. 8-12 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  4. Published

    Semantic processing of actions at 9 months is linked to language proficiency at 9 and 18 months

    Kaduk, K., Bakker, M., Juvrud, J., Gredebäck, G., Westermann, G., Lunn, J. & Reid, V. M., 11/2016, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 151, p. 96-108 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineSpecial issuepeer-review

  5. Published

    Shared and/or seperate representations of animate/inanimate categories: an ERP study

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 2009, In: Psihologija. 42, 1, p. 5-26 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Simulating German verb inflection with a constructivist neural network

    Ruh, N. & Westermann, G., 2009, Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II: Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Mayor, J., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K. (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, p. 313-324 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  7. Published

    Single mechanism but not single route: Learning verb inflections in constructivist neural networks

    Westermann, G., 12/1999, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22, 6, p. 1042-1043 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  8. Published

    Some thoughts on curiosity in infants and neural network models

    Westermann, G. & Twomey, K., 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  9. Published

    Studying development in the 21(st) Century

    Sirois, S., Spratling, M., Thomas, M. S. C., Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. & Johnson, M. H., 06/2008, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31, 3, p. 345-356 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  10. Published

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

    Hilton, M., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 1/07/2019, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 183, p. 134-145 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    The Development of the Early Child Curiosity Questionnaire

    Altmann, E. C., de Boer, E., Eiteljoerge, S., Bazhydai, M., Hunnius, S., Bounia-Mastrogianni, P., Meyer, M., Karadag Akkaya, D., Braithwaite, E. & Westermann, G., 25/08/2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

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    The effect of interpersonal behavioural synchrony on children’s learning.

    Bazhydai, M., Ke, H., Thomas, H. & Westermann, G., 22/08/2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  14. Published

    The effect of labelling and object handling on children’s novel object exploration.

    Loucaides, M., Westermann, G. & Twomey, K., 2/07/2018.

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

  15. Published

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

    Hilton, M. & Westermann, G., 11/2017, In: Journal of Child Language. 44, 6, p. 1394-1412 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

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

    Harris, M. (Editor) & Westermann, G. (Editor), 20/12/2019, Wiley.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  17. Published

    The Impact of Perceived Emotions on Toddlers’ Word Learning

    MA, L., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 30/09/2022, In: Child Development. 93, 5, p. 1584-1600 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A validated caregiver-report measure of curiosity in children from 5 to 24 months

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Karadag, D. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2025, In: Infancy. 30, 1, e70001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    The Infant Curiosity Questionnaire

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Karadag, D. & Westermann, G., 10/07/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  20. Published

    The Infant Curiosity Questionnaire: Progress and next steps

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Karadag, D. & Westermann, G., 26/08/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  21. Published

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

    Chen, X., Twomey, K. E., Hayes, M. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2025, In: Metacognition and Learning. 20, 1.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Forthcoming

    The Limits of Curiosity? New Evidence for the Roles of Metacognitive Abilities and Curiosity in Learning

    Chen, X., Twomey, K., Hayes, M. & Westermann, G., 28/09/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Metacognition and Learning.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The limits of infants’ early word learning

    Taxitari, L., Twomey, K., Westermann, G. & Mani, N., 1/03/2020, In: Language Learning and Development. 16, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. E-pub ahead of print

    The role of metacognitive abilities and curiosity in learning

    Chen, X., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 21/11/2022, (E-pub ahead of print)

    Research output: Other contribution

  25. Published

    The role of ostensive and referential cues in infant object memory

    Silverstein, P., Westermann, G., Gliga, T. & Parise, E., 26/08/2017.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  26. Published

    The shape of words in the brain

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 01/2010, In: Cognition. 114, 1, p. 19-28 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

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

    Chan, J., Shaw, P. & Westermann, G., 31/08/2023, In: Cognition. 237, 8 p., 105475.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 1/07/2024, In: Developmental Science. 27, 4, e13479.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others

    Karadag Akkaya, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 11/07/2024, p. 932-933. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  30. Published

    Toddlers’ selective information transmission: Pitting self-discovered information against instructed information.

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 10/07/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  31. Published

    Top-down and bottom-up effects on the visual N1 category differences

    Linnert, S., Reid, V. & Westermann, G., 08/2015, In: Perception. 44, p. 7-8 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineMeeting abstractpeer-review

  32. Published

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

    Bazhydai, M., Silverstein, P., Parise, E. & Westermann, G., 1/09/2020, In: Developmental Science. 23, 5, 13 p., e12941.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Under-resourced or overloaded? Rethinking working memory deficits in developmental language disorder

    Jones, S. & Westermann, G., 30/11/2022, In: Psychological Review. 129, 6, p. 1358-1372 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Variability driven animacy effects: evidence of structural, not conceptual differences in processing animates and inanimates

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 2010, In: Psihologija. 43, 1, p. 65-83 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    What computers have shown us about the mind

    Monaghan, P., Keidel, J., Burton, M. & Westermann, G., 08/2010, In: Psychologist. 23, 8, p. 642-645 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published
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