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…

Shirley is investigating speech processing in monolingual and bilingual infants and adults using fNIRS. She is off to Singapore for 3 months to stay in the lab of Luca Onnis at Nanyang Technological University. There she will set up a NIRS lab and test her bilingual infant sample.  

Gert has joined the editorial board of the journal Cognitive Development. http://bit.ly/2tk2Ho6

Marina recently attended the Cognitive Development Society’s meeting in Portland, OR, USA and wrote the following summary:   Are children guided by proto-epistemic motives during social interactions? Impressions after the CDS conference by Marina Bazhydai Last week’s Cognitive Development Society’s meeting which took place in Portland, OR, brought together over 900 developmental scientists for 3 days…

Katie Twomey is presenting a poster at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language in Lyon: Twomey, K., Ma, L., and Westermann, G.,”Background variability supports early noun learning”