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Professor Gert Westermann

Professor, Head of Department

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Computational rationality and developmental neurodivergence

    Jones, S. D., Rauwolf, P. & Westermann, G., 30/04/2025, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29, 4, p. 314-317 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Curious Choices: Infants’ moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history

    Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2025, In: Cognition. 254, 105976.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Perception and Cognitive Control in Rationally Inattentive Child Behaviour

    Jones, S. D., Jones, M., Koldewyn, K. & Westermann, G., 31/01/2025, In: Developmental Science. 28, 1

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 2024
  8. Published

    Caregivers as Experimenters: Reducing Unfamiliarity Helps Shy Children Learn Words

    Hilton, M., Twomey, K. & Westermann, G., 30/11/2024, In: Infancy. 29, 6, p. 877-893 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    A Student's Guide to Developmental Psychology

    Harris, M., Westermann, G., Kim, S. & Bazhydai, M., 15/11/2024, 2nd ed. London: Routledge. 482 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  10. Published

    Can 3-year-old children learn verbs using an educational touchscreen app?

    Taylor, G., Westermann, G. & Monaghan, P., 2/10/2024, In: Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 2023
  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Published
  25. 2022
  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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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