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Professor Gert Westermann

Professor, Head of Department

  1. Journal article
  2. Forthcoming

    Caregivers as Experimenters: Reducing Unfamiliarity Helps Shy Children Learn Words

    Hilton, M., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 30/08/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Infancy.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Associative Learning, from Conceptualization to Implementation

    Tovar, Á. E. & Westermann, G., 28/06/2024, In: Annee Psychologique. 124, 2, p. 253-261 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 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

  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., 30/09/2024, In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 54, 9, p. 3301-3315 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 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

  16. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. 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

  18. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Published

    Predictive processing and developmental language disorder

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

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Published

    Pupillometry in infancy research

    Hepach, R. & Westermann, G., 06/2016, In: Journal of Cognition and Development. 17, 3, p. 359-377 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    Experience-dependent brain development as a key to understanding the language system

    Westermann, G., 04/2016, In: Topics in Cognitive Science. 8, 2, p. 446-458 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. 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

  39. Published

    From perceptual to language-mediated categorization

    Westermann, G. & Mareschal, D., 19/01/2014, In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 369, 1634, 20120391.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Infants' sensitivity to the congruence of others' emotions and actions

    Hepach, R. & Westermann, G., 05/2013, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 115, 1, p. 16-29 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. 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

  42. Published

    Mechanisms of developmental change in infant categorization

    Westermann, G. & Mareschal, D., 10/2012, In: Cognitive Development. 27, 4, p. 367-382 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    A neuroconstructivist model of past tense development and processing

    Westermann, G. & Ruh, N., 2012, In: Psychological Review. 119, 3, p. 649-667 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. Published

    A unitary account of conceptual representations of animate/inanimate categories

    Kovic, V., Plunkett, K. & Westermann, G., 2010, In: Psihologija. 43, 2, p. 155-165 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

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