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Professor Gert Westermann

Professor, Head of Department

  1. Published

    An eye-tracking study of inanimate objects

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 2009, In: Psihologija. 42, 4, p. 417-436 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    An eye-tracking study of animate objects

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 2009, In: Psihologija. 42, 3, p. 307-327 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 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

  4. Published

    Implicit vs. explicit learning in German noun plurals

    Kovic, V., Westermann, G. & Plunkett, K., 2008, In: Psihologija. 41, 4, p. 387-411 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    ERP correlates of two separate top-down mechanisms in visual categorization

    Linnert, S., Reid, V. M. & Westermann, G., 10/2016, In: International Journal of Psychophysiology. 108, p. 83 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineMeeting abstractpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Published
  9. Unpublished

    How Perceived Emotions Infuence Toddlers' Word Learning

    Ma, L., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 6/09/2018, (Unpublished).

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

  10. Published
  11. Published

    The Impact of Perceived Emotions on Toddlers’ Word Learning

    MA, LIZHI., 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

  12. Published

    Evidence of rapid correlation-based perceptual category learning by 4-month-olds

    Mareschal, D., Powell, D., Westermann, G. & Volein, A., 12/2005, In: Infant and Child Development. 14, 5, p. 445-457 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    In search of the developmental mechanisms of multi-sensory integration

    Mareschal, D., Westermann, G. & Althaus, N., 2012, Multisensory Development. Bremner, A., Lewkowicz, D. & Spence, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 342-359 18 p.

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

  14. Published

    Neuroconstructivism, Vol. I: How the brain constructs cognition.

    Mareschal, D., Johnson, M. H., Sirois, S., Spratling, M. W., Thomas, M. S. C. & Westermann, G., 2007, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 274 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  15. Published

    Neuroconstructivism Vol. 2: Perspectives and Prospects

    Mareschal, D., Sirois, S., Westermann, G. & Johnson, M. H., 2007, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 274 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  16. Published

    Mixing the Old with the New and the New with the Old: Combining Prior and Current Knowledge in Conceptual Change

    Mareschal, D. & Westermann, G., 1/02/2010, Neoconstructivism: The New Science of Cognitive Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  17. 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

  18. Published

    Dissociating associative and motor aspects of action understanding: processing of dual-ended tools by 16-month-old infants.

    Ní Choisdealbha, A., Westermann, G., Dunn, K. & Reid, V., 03/2016, In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 34, 1, p. 115-131 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Musical data mining for electronic music distribution

    Pachet, F., Westermann, G. & Laigre, D., 2001, First International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, 2001. Proceedings. . Nesi, P., Bellini, P. & Busch, C. (eds.). LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, p. 101-106 6 p.

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

  20. Published

    Broca's area and inflectional morphology: evidence from Broca's aphasia and computer modeling

    Penke, M. & Westermann, G., 05/2006, In: Cortex. 42, 4, p. 563-576 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. E-pub ahead of print

    How do autistic and neurotypical children’s interests influence their accuracy during novel word learning?

    Rothwell, C., Westermann, G. & Hartley, C., 2/08/2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    OXlearn: a new MATLAB-based simulation tool for connectionist models

    Ruh, N. & Westermann, G., 11/2009, In: Behavior Research Methods. 41, 4, p. 1138-1143 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Published

    Probing communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants: Two replication attempts of Yoon, Johnson and Csibra (2008)

    Silverstein, P., Gliga, T., Westermann, G. & Parise, E., 1/05/2019, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 55, p. 77-87 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction

    Silverstein, P., Westermann, G., Parise, E. & Twomey, K., 30/09/2019, 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). IEEE, p. 302-306 5 p.

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

  27. Published

    Infants learn to follow gaze in stages: Evidence confirming a robotic prediction

    Silverstein, P., Feng, J., Westermann, G., Parise, E. & Twomey, K., 25/11/2021, In: Open Mind. 5, p. 174–188 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Precis of neuroconstructivism: how the brain constructs cognition

    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. 321-337 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLiterature reviewpeer-review

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. Published

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

    Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G., 1/01/2018, In: Journal of Children and Media. 12, 1, p. 51-65 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    A Neurocomputational Approach to Trained and Transitive Relations in Equivalence Classes

    Tovar, A. E. & Westermann, G., 18/10/2017, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 8, 15 p., 1848.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    No Need to Forget, Just Keep the Balance: Hebbian Neural Networks for Statistical Learning

    Tovar, A. E. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2023, In: Cognition. 230, 9 p., 105176.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Computational Exploration of Lexical Development in Down Syndrome

    Tovar Y Romo, A. E. & Westermann, G., 20/07/2017, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T. & Davelaar, E. (eds.). London: Cognitive Science Society, p. 1199-1204 6 p.

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

  35. Published

    From altered synaptic plasticity to atypical learning: a computational model of Down syndrome

    Tovar Y Romo, A. E., Westermann, G. & Torres, A., 1/02/2018, In: Cognition. 171, p. 15-24 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    A neural network model of curiosity-driven categorization

    Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 13/08/2015. 6 p.

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

  37. Published

    Infants’ information seeking in a category exploration task

    Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 28/05/2016.

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

  38. Published

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

    Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 3/08/2016, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J. C. (eds.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, p. 680-685 6 p.

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

  39. Published

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

    Twomey, K. E. (ed.), Smith, A. C. (ed.), Westermann, G. (ed.) & Monaghan, P. J. (ed.), 11/2016, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 152 p. (Progress in Neural Processing; vol. 22)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  40. Published

    Learned labels shape pre-speech infants’ object representations

    Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2018, In: Infancy. 23, 1, p. 61-73 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Extraneous visual noise facilitates word learning

    Twomey, K. E., Ma, L. & Westermann, G., 20/07/2017, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T. & Davelaar, E. (eds.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, p. 3404-3409 6 p.

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

  42. Published

    Curiosity-based learning in infants: A neurocomputational approach

    Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 1/07/2018, In: Developmental Science. 21, 4, 13 p., e12629.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    All the Right Noises: Background Variability Helps Early Word Learning

    Twomey, K. E., Ma, L. & Westermann, G., 1/05/2018, In: Cognitive Science. 42 Suppl 2, Suppl. 2, p. 413-438 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

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

    Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 13/05/2019, International Handbook of Language Acquisition. Horst, J. & Torkildsen, J. V. K. (eds.). Oxford, New York: Routledge, p. 102-114 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  45. Published

    Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model

    Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Hamlin, J. K., Kaldy, Z., Kulke, L., Laverty, C., Lew-Williams, C., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Nomikou, I., Schuwerk, T., Simpson, E. A., & 8 othersSingh, L., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., van den Heuvel, M. I., Westermann, G., Yamada, Y., Zaadnoordijk, L. & Zettersten, M., 10/02/2022, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 45, e35.

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

  46. Published

    Prespeech motor learning in a neural network using reinforcement

    Warlaumont, A., Westermann, G., Buder, E. & Oller, D. K., 2013, In: Neural Networks. 38, p. 64-75 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. 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

  48. Published

    Modelling the transition from perceptual to conceptual organization

    Westermann, G. & Mareschal, D., 07/2009, 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 PUBL CO PTE LTD, p. 153-164 12 p.

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

  49. Published

    Connectionist approaches to language learning

    Westermann, G., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K., 03/2009, In: Linguistics. 47, 2, p. 413-452 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLiterature reviewpeer-review

  50. Published

    Neuroconstructivism

    Westermann, G., Mareschal, D., Johnson, M. H., Sirois, S., Spratling, M. W. & Thomas, M. S. C., 01/2007, In: Developmental Science. 10, 1, p. 75-83 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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