Dr. Katie Twomey has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to investigate infants’ and young children’s curiosity-based learning. The project will run from October 2016 for two years, and will use head-mounted eyetrackers to discover for the first time what kind of environment best supports early learning, and how infants and toddlers learn…
Matt HIlton and Katie Twomey will be giving talks at BPS Developmental Section and Social Section 2015, to be held in Manchester on 9-11 September. Matt’s talk, Investigating the link between shyness and early word learning, describes an eye-tracking study of a word learning task designed to tease apart differences in the way shy and less-shy…
Katie Twomey and Gert Westermann have been awarded the Best Paper Prize at the Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, for their paper A neural network model of curiosity-driven infant categorization. A copy of the paper is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Twomey