Ben, who is a second year undergraduate Psychology student, has received funds for an internship from the ESRC Lucid Centre. He will spend six weeks in the Babylab to work with Katie and Gert on a project entitled “Curiosity-based word learning”. He will learn about stimulus creation, study planning, and testing infants in the lab.…

Gemma will present a poster entitled “The role of language cues on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age”.

Gert gave a talk at the UCL Psychology Department entitled “From infants’ preverbal to language-based learning about objects and categories”.

Gert presented a talk in the Psychology Department at the University of Zürich, entitled “Learning about objects and words in the first 15 months of life”.

Matt and Gert (together with other members of the Lancaster Babylab) are attending the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Philadelphia. Matt will present a poster entitled “Shyness affects word learning: Evidence from eye tracking”.