Marina Bazhydai attended the Exploring Curiosity Conference in Amsterdam, where she presented the results of her study entitled: Curiosity in social learning: 12-month olds selectively seek information from more knowledgeable informants.
Members of the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme in Interdisciplinary Research on Infant Development (PI Gert Westermann, left; scholars from left to right: Marina Bazhydai, Samantha Russell, Ellie Smith, Shirley Cheung, Marina Loucaides, and Shirly Ma) attended the Annual Lecture and Dinner held at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on the 24th of…
It’s important to work hard, but it is equally important to set time aside to enjoy with your colleagues. Gert and his wife, Teresa, host annual tea parties in their lovely home where our favorite green tea cakes and apple crumble pies are baked in addition to an assortment of biscuits, chocolates, and fruit salad.…
Another successful LCICD came to a close this week, where lab members Marina Bazhydai, Jacky Chan, Shirley Cheung, Kirsty Dunn, Han Ke, Szilvia Linnert, Marina Loucaides, Shirly Ma, and Priya Silverstein presented their exciting infancy research. Special thanks to the invited speakers, Sabina Pauen, Laura Bosch, and John Spencer for sharing with us the cutting-edge…
This is Shirley’s first publication with her colleagues in the US, Pui Fong Kan, Ellie Winicour, and Jerry Yang. The paper is titled: Effects of home language input on the vocabulary knowledge of sequential bilingual children https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000810. Their results show great variability in Cantonese (L1) and English (L2) input sequential bilingual children receive at home from…
Shirley, Marina B., and Priya attended the biannual Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2017) in Bilbao, Spain in June. They heard great talks from highly prestigious developmental researchers such as Janet Werker, David Lewkowicz, and Daniel Swingley who will be the keynote speaker for LCICD 2017. The Workshop inspired the lab members to plan their future studies…
We are proud to announce the second annual International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development held at Lancaster University, U.K. The event will take place during 23-25 August 2017 with a pre-conference day workshop on the 22nd. The aim of this conference is to provide an opportunity for developmental researchers (prenatal – 4 years old) with…
Following a very successful 1st LCICD in 2016, our 2nd annual international conference on Infant and Early Child Development is now accepting abstract submissions for 2017. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (excluding references) with an additional page for figures and graphs. We invite abstract submissions from all areas of infant and early child development…
We would like to congratulate lab member, Priya Silverstein, on winning Aston University’s Best Student Performance Award for her MSc in Cognitive Science!
Our very first Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development was a great success! Many thanks to the wonderful and hardworking organising committee. The conference ran over the course of 2.5 days (25-27 Aug) with an interactive pre-conference day workshop (24 Aug) that focussed on EEG and eye-tracking methodologies. We would also like to thank our invited…