We would like to acknowledge and congratulate lab members Rebecca Frost, Gemma Taylor, Katie Twomey, Ben Malem, Matt Hilton, Shirly Ma, and Professor Gert Westermann for attending and presenting their work in the 2016 International Congress of Infant Studies held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA!
They will be presenting a number of exciting new material on infant research. Listed below are the presentations that will take place. Names in bold are persons affiliated with Lancaster University.
Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. (2016, May). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development? Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Hilton, M., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016, May). Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words Paper to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Ma, S., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016, May). The effect of background variability on referent selection in fast mapping tasks: Evidence from eye movements. Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). The role of storybooks and screen media exposure on children’s language development. Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Twomey, K. E. (chair) (2016, May) Understanding infants’ curiosity-based learning: empirical and computational approaches. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies New Orleans, LA, USA. [including talks from Chen Yu, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Gert Westermann]
Twomey, K. E., Malem, B. & Westermann, G. (2016, May). Infants’ information seeking in a category learning task. In Twomey, K. E., (chair) Understanding Infants’ Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Westermann, G. (chair). Views by Two Topic – studying autism with technology. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies New Orleans, LA, USA [including talks from Jim Rehg and Brian Scasselatti.]
Westermann, G. & Twomey, K. E. (2016, May). A computational model of infants’ curiosity-based learning. In Twomey, K. E., (chair) Understanding Infants’ Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.