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Professor Gert Westermann

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  1. 2024
  2. Published

    A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may explain developmental language disorder

    Jones, S. D., Stewart, H. J. & Westermann, G., 1/04/2024, In: Psychological Review. 131, 3, p. 695-715

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

  3. Forthcoming

    Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking

    Jones, S. D., Jones, M., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 21/02/2024, (Accepted/In press).

    Research output: Working paper › Preprint

  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 7/02/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Developmental Science. e13479.

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

  5. 2023
  6. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  7. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  8. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  9. Published

    Face time: Effects of shyness and attention to faces on early word learning

    Hilton, M., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 12/06/2023, In: Language Development Research . 3, 1, p. 156-181 26 p.

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

  10. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  11. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  12. Published

    Selective teaching in development: preferential information transmission following direct instruction and independent exploration in 2- and 5-year-olds

    Karadag, D., Suthers, A., Westermann, G. & Bazhydai, M., 2023.

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

  13. 2022
  14. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  15. E-pub ahead of print

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

    Jones, S. & Westermann, G., 30/11/2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychological Review. 129, 6, p. 1358-1372 15 p.

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

  16. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  17. 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

  18. Published

    Prediction cannot be directly trained: An extension to Jones and Westermann (2021)

    Jones, S. & Westermann, G., 17/10/2022, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 65, 10, p. 3930-3933 4 p.

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

  19. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-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 › Poster › peer-review

  21. Published

    Do toddlers preferentially transmit generalizable information?

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

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

  22. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  23. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  24. 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/Magazine › Comment/debate › peer-review

  25. Published

    Do toddlers preferentially transmit generalizable information? A Registered Report.

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 8/02/2022

    Research output: Other contribution

  26. Published

    Does curiosity enhance word learning in 18-month-old infants? A Registered Report.

    Bazhydai, M., Jones, S. D. & Westermann, G., 26/01/2022

    Research output: Other contribution

  27. 2021
  28. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  29. Published

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

    Ishibashi, M., Twomey, K. E., Westermann, G. & Uehara, I., 30/11/2021, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 65, 12 p., 101631.

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

  30. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  31. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  32. Published

    Young children’s selectivity in teaching: Do toddlers and school age children prioritize the same type of information when they transmit information?

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 27/08/2021.

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

  33. Published

    Origins of dissociations in the English past tense: A synthetic brain imaging model

    Westermann, G. & Jones, S., 2/07/2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 16 p., 688908.

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

  34. Published

    ‘Until it bores me’: Learning Progress Maximization as the Reward Mechanism to solve the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma in Infants

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 24/06/2021.

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

  35. Published

    Predictive processing and developmental language disorder

    Jones, S. & Westermann, G., 14/01/2021, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64, 1, p. 181-185 5 p.

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

  36. 2020
  37. 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/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  38. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  39. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  40. Published

    Children as active teachers: Do toddlers transmit generalisable or specific information?

    Karadag, D., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 26/08/2020, p. 43. 1 p.

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

  41. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  42. Published

    Predictive processing and developmental language disorder

    Jones, S. D. & Westermann, G., 15/05/2020, In: PsyArXiv.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article

  43. 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/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  44. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  45. 2019
  46. Published

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

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

    Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book

  47. 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/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

  48. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  49. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  50. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  51. 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/ISSN › Chapter

  52. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  53. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  54. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  55. Published

    Negativity Bias in Emotion Perception on Toddlers Word’s Learning: Findings from an Eye Tracking Study

    MA, LIZHI., Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G., 2019.

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

  56. 2018
  57. 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

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