{"id":275,"date":"2016-07-29T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/?p=275"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:03:00","slug":"dr-katie-twomey-awarded-esrc-future-research-leaders-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/2016\/07\/29\/dr-katie-twomey-awarded-esrc-future-research-leaders-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Katie Twomey awarded ESRC Future Research Leaders grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Katie Twomey has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to investigate infants&#8217; and young children&#8217;s curiosity-based learning. The project will run from October 2016 for two years, and will use head-mounted eyetrackers to discover\u00a0for the first time what kind of environment best supports early learning, and how infants and toddlers learn in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>The paper that inspired the project can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/281090088_A_neural_network_model_of_curiosity-driven_infant_categorization\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Katie Twomey has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to investigate infants&#8217; and young children&#8217;s curiosity-based learning. The project will run from October 2016 for two years, and will use head-mounted eyetrackers to discover\u00a0for the first time what kind of environment best supports early learning, and how infants and toddlers learn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/westermann-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}