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Professor Gert Westermann

Professor, Head of Department

  1. Published

    Labels constructively shape object categories in 10-month-old infants

    Althaus, N. & Westermann, G., 11/2016, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 151, p. 5-17 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published
  3. Published

    Exploration and exploitation in infants’ curiosity-based learning

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 27/08/2021.

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

  4. Published

    ‘Let me see that’: Self-directed Exploration in Infants tested in the context of a new theoretical framework

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 30/11/2021.

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Individual Differences in Infants’ Exploration Styles within a novel, gaze-contingent Paradigm.

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 5/01/2023.

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

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Pedagogical cues and action complexity modulate transmission of information in two-year-old children

    Bazhydai, M., Silverstein, P., Westermann, G. & Parise, E., 5/01/2018.

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

  10. Published

    12-month-olds actively seek information from a more knowledgeable social partner

    Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G. & Parise, E., 2019.

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

  11. Published

    Epistemic curiosity in social learning: Infants’ active information seeking in situations of referential uncertainty

    Bazhydai, M., Thomas, H., Westermann, G. & Parise, E., 9/03/2019.

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

  12. Published

    Creativity manifestations in early childhood: explorative and innovative actions during social learning.

    Bazhydai, M., Silverstein, P., Thomas, H., Parise, E. & Westermann, G., 22/05/2019.

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

  13. Published

    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

    Curiosity and Exploration

    Bazhydai, M., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 3/03/2020, Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development. Benson, J. B. (ed.). 2nd ed. ed. Elsevier, p. 370-378 9 p.

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

  15. Published

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

    Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G. & Parise, E., 1/09/2020, In: Developmental Science. 23, 5, 10 p., e12938.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 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

  17. Published

    From Curiosity, to Wonder, to Creativity: a Cognitive Developmental Psychology Perspective

    Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 4/09/2020, Wonder, education, and human flourishing: Theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. Schinkel, A. (ed.). Amsterdam: VU University Press, p. 144-182 39 p.

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

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  19. Published

    Investigating the effect of synchronized movement on toddlers’ word learning

    Bazhydai, M., Ke, H., Thomas, H., Wong, M. K. Y. & Westermann, G., 24/11/2022, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 15 p., 1008404.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

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

    Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 3/08/2016, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.. Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J. C. (eds.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, p. 337-341 5 p.

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

  21. Published

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

    Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 1/06/2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 12, 2, p. 160-168 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. 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

  23. Published

    Different novelties revealed by infants’ pupillary responses

    Chen, Y-C. & Westermann, G., 22/06/2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 8 p., 9533.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Curiosity Enhances Incidental Object Encoding in 8-month-old Infants

    Chen, X., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 30/11/2022, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 223, 13 p., 105508.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. 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

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