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Professor Gert Westermann

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  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Neural representations of grasp congruence during the emergence of precision grasping

    Choisdealbha, Á. N., Westermann, G. & Reid, V., 30/06/2025, In: Infancy. 30, 3, e70026.

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

  3. Published

    Curiosity-driven learning in infancy: insights from gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigms

    Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G. & Altmann, E. C., 4/06/2025.

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

  4. Forthcoming

    Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition

    Rowland, C. F., Westermann, G., Theakston, A., Pine, J., Monaghan, P. & Lieven, E., 21/05/2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14 p.

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

  5. Published

    No evidence of curiosity-driven information selection advantage for infants’ novel word learning.

    Bazhydai, M., Wong, M. K. Y., Altmann, E. C., Jones, S. & Westermann, G., 3/05/2025.

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

  6. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  7. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  8. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  9. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  10. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  11. 2024
  12. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  13. 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/Proceedings › Book

  14. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  15. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  16. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  17. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  18. 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 › Poster › peer-review

  19. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  20. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  21. 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

  22. 2023
  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 2022
  30. 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

  31. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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 others, Singh, 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

  41. Published

    Do toddlers preferentially transmit generalizable information? A Registered Report.

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

    Research output: Other contribution

  42. 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

  43. 2021
  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 2020
  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

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