{"id":191,"date":"2016-01-21T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:47:40","slug":"191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/2016\/01\/21\/191\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Members to present at 2016 ICIS Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate lab members Rebecca Frost, Gemma Taylor, Katie Twomey, Ben Malem, Matt Hilton, Shirly Ma, and Professor Gert Westermann for\u00a0attending and presenting their work in the 2016 International Congress of Infant Studies<\/a>\u00a0held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA!<\/p>\n

They will be presenting a number of exciting new material\u00a0on infant research. Listed below are the presentations that will take place. Names in bold are persons affiliated with Lancaster University.<\/p>\n

Frost, R. L. A<\/b>.,\u00a0<\/span>Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C.,\u00a0<\/span>Monaghan, P<\/b><\/span>. & Christiansen, M.\u00a0(2016, May).\u00a0How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development?<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial\u00a0International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hilton, M., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G.<\/b>\u00a0(2016, May).\u00a0Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words<\/i>\u00a0Paper to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/span><\/div>\n
Ma, S., Twomey, K. E.,<\/b>\u00a0& Westermann, G<\/b>. (2016, May).\u00a0<\/span>The effect of background variability on referent selection in fast mapping tasks: Evidence from eye movements<\/i><\/span>. Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G.<\/strong> (2016). The role of storybooks and screen media exposure on children\u2019s language development. Poster to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/div>\n
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Twomey, K. E.<\/b>\u00a0(chair) (2016, May)\u00a0<\/span>Understanding infants\u2019 curiosity-based learning: empirical and computational approaches<\/i>. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies\u00a0New Orleans, LA, USA. [including talks from Chen Yu, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Gert Westermann]<\/span><\/div>\n
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Twomey, K. E.<\/b>, Malem, B. & Westermann, G.<\/b>\u00a0(2016, May).\u00a0Infants\u2019 information seeking in a category learning task.\u00a0<\/i>In Twomey, K. E., (chair) Understanding Infants\u2019 Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Westermann, G.<\/strong> (chair).\u00a0Views by Two Topic –\u00a0studying autism with technology.\u00a0Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies\u00a0New Orleans, LA, USA [including talks from Jim Rehg and Brian Scasselatti.]<\/div>\n
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Westermann, G. & Twomey, K. E.<\/b>\u00a0(2016, May).\u00a0A computational model of infants\u2019 curiosity-based learning.\u00a0<\/i><\/span>In Twomey, K. E., (chair) Understanding Infants\u2019 Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium to be presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We would like to acknowledge and congratulate lab members Rebecca Frost, Gemma Taylor, Katie Twomey, Ben Malem, Matt Hilton, Shirly Ma, and Professor Gert Westermann for\u00a0attending and presenting their work in the 2016 International Congress of Infant Studies\u00a0held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA! They will be presenting a number of exciting new material\u00a0on infant research.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}