On May 22, 2019, Marina attended the UK Creativity Researchers conference held at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, and presented (along with Priya) findings about infants’ spontaneous curiosity-driven explorative and innovative behaviours as early manifestations of creativity. To learn more about this conference, please visit: https://creativityresearchers.co.uk/ Last month, on…
Priya Silverstein has had a paper accepted to present as a talk and as a proceedings paper at ICDL-EpiRob 2019. This is an interdisciplinary conference covering computer science, robotics, psychology, and developmental studies in order to understand human development. Priya will be presenting results from her study on the development of gaze following, where she…
In March 2019, lab members Marina Bazhydai, Priya Silverstein, and Shirly Ma presented their most recent work at the ICPS2019 (International Congress of Psychological Society) in Paris. Priya held a symposium ‘What Can You Do with Nothing? Informative Null Results in Hard-to-Reach Populations’. Three talks in the symposium introduced the effective solutions when you get…
On 7th December, Shirley ran a workshop about fNIR to the researchers working in the Lancaster University Babylab. From the rationale of fNIR to experiment manipuilation as well as the hands-on session of processing data on Matlab, Shirley shared her knowledge with us. …
Marina Bazhydai has an article in the Cultured Scene magazine, published by the Association of Early-career Social Learning Researchers, https://www.eslrsociety.org/cultured-scene/, entitled Big Questions of Cultural Learning. You can read the article here: https://www.eslrsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CS3_4BigQuestions.pdf Marina wrote this piece as a reflection following her attendance at a two-day Early Career Social Learning Researchers’ 2018 Workshop, held this year at the University…
From 1st to 3rd of July, lab members went to Philadelphia, USA to attend International Congress of Infant Study. Many of them made great presentations in poster and talk session. Here are the topics and abstracts of presentations: Pedagogical cues and action complexity affect transmission of information in two-year-old children Marina Bazhydai¹, Priya Silverstein¹, Gert Westermann¹, Eugenio…
This June to July, Han Ke has spent 4 weeks in the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Brain Sciences in Leipzig, working alongside the research team of Prof Stefanie Hoehl‘s Early Social Cognition Lab (ESCo), learning about the brain-to-brain coupling research in infants. Here is the Lucid blog Han wrote for her visit: http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/han-ke-my-research-visit-to-the-max-planck-institute-for-cognitive-brain-sciences-in-leipzig/
Marina Bazhydai gave a talk on July 12th at the annual interdisciplinary Culture Conference 2018, held this year at the University of Stirling, https://culture-conference.com/programme-2/, presenting her work on information transmission in 2-year olds conducted in collaboration with Priya Silverstein, Eugenio Parise, and Gert Westermann. This year’s theme was Complexity in Culture, focusing on defining and adequately measuring…
On 14th of June, Priya gave a great talk about her study “The Role of Ostensive-referential Cues in Infant Perspective-taking” at Perspective-taking Workshop in Lancaster University. Below is the abstract of her talk: Humans are expert learners. We learn implicitly, through mechanisms like statistical learning, and explicitly from others through cultural learning. Cultural learning can…
Marina Bazhydai, Shirly Ma and Priya Silverstein attended Jean Piaget Society 2018 held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (30/5 – 2/6). The theme of conference this year was “The Dynamics of Development: Process, (Inter-)Action, & Complexity”. The conference covered theories based on the dynamic of human development as well as the uptodate research of developmental psychology…