Xiaoyun gave her very first talk in Leipzig at paEpsy 2019, where she presented results of a study that collaborated with Han Ke and Christine Michel. The talk is titled: The Impact of Parents’ Smartphone Use on Object Learning in 9-month-old Infants: A Dual Head-mounted Eye-tracking Study.
Margaret Harris’ and Gert’s textbook, A Student’s Guide to Developmental Psychology, has been published in a Japanese translation: 発達心理学ガイドブック 子どもの発達理解のために with Akashi Shoten Co Ltd.
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 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.
Arthur has the first paper from his PhD accepted: Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K., & Westermann, G.(accepted). Neurocomputational models capture the effect of learned labels on infants’ object and category representations. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
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…