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…
Katie Twomey presented a talk at the Annual Mini-Conference of the ESRC Lucid centre. Her talk was on “The importance of nonlinguistic variability to early language learning: the case of colour” and presented data collected by Shirly Ma during her MSc project last year. Shirly will be re-joining the lab in October to start a PhD.
Our new paper has just been published in Infancy. It is open access, so everyone can read it. In this paper we show that when infants learn the name for an object they process this object differently to objects for which they don’t know the name. Our results provide insights into how object and linguistic…
`Gert has given a keynote lecture at the Fourth International Conference on Psycholinguistics in China, Guangzhou, China. Gert talked about “When words and objects combine: Infants at the transition from preverbal to language-based cognition”.
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…
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…
Gemma Taylor will be attending and giving a talk at The British Psychological Society: Developmental Section Annual Conference during 14-16 of September. The title of her talk is shown below. Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Children’s verb learning: Touchscreen apps versus live interactions. British Psychological Society: Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, Belfast, UK.