A5069133448- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Color perception and design
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Educational Methods and Media Use
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Topic Modeling
University of Liverpool
2020-2025
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2019-2021
Max Planck Society
2019-2020
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
2019-2020
University of Salford
2020
Google (United States)
2020
• Processing speed correlates with vocabulary when knowledge of words tested varies. Fast processing speeds up growth for children small vocabularies. accelerates syntactic over and above size. Suggests a direct relationship between development. Interaction is more complex. It becoming increasingly clear that the way acquire cognitive representations depends critically on how their system developing. In particular, recent studies suggest individual differences in language play an important...
Most people like symmetry, and symmetry has been extensively used in visual art architecture. In this study, we compared preference for images of abstract familiar objects the original format or when containing perfect bilateral symmetry. We created pairs different categories: male faces, female polygons, smoothed version flowers, landscapes. This design allows us to compare domains. Each observer saw all categories randomly interleaved but only one two a pair. After recording preference,...
Error-based theories of language acquisition suggest that children, like adults, continuously make and evaluate predictions in order to reach an adult-like state use. However, while these have become extremely influential, their central claim—that unpredictable input leads higher rates lasting change linguistic representations—has scarcely been tested. We designed a prime surprisal-based intervention study assess this claim. As predicted, both 5- 6-year-old children ( n = 72) adults showed...
Purpose Research has indicated that interactive shared book reading can support a wide range of early language skills and children who are read to regularly in the years learn faster, enter school with larger vocabulary, become more successful readers at school. Despite large volume research suggesting is beneficial for development, two fundamental issues remain outstanding: whether interventions equally effective (a) from all socioeconomic backgrounds (b) skills. Method To address these...
According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences embedded in continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed these accounts are often incompatible with data from other areas of language development. We present a new theory connect word discovery broader developmental literature. argue that (a) build diverse collection chunks, including words, multi-word phrases, and sub-lexical units; (b) chunks have different processing times determined how...
According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences embedded in continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed these accounts are often incompatible with data from other areas of language development. We present a new theory connect word discovery broader developmental literature. argue that (a) build diverse collection chunks, including words, multi-word phrases, and sub-lexical units; (b) chunks have different processing times determined how...
According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting subsequences embedded in continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed these accounts are often incompatible with data from other areas of language development. We present a new theory connect word discovery broader developmental literature. argue that (a) build diverse collection chunks, including words, multiword phrases, and sublexical units; (b) chunks have different processing times determined how...
To acquire language, infants must learn how to identify words and linguistic structure in speech. Statistical learning has been suggested assist both of these tasks. However, infants' capacity use statistics discover together remains unclear. Further, it is not yet known statistical ability relates their language development. We trained 17-month-old on an artificial comprising non-adjacent dependencies, examined looking times tasks assessing sensitivity using eye-tracked head-turn-preference...
From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is link between later vocabulary size. Infants' was tested part of the ManyBabies 1 project, follow-up CDI data were collected from subsample dataset at 18 24 months. A total 341 (18 months) 327 (24 across 21...
According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences embedded in continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed these accounts are often incompatible with data from other areas of language development. We present a new theory connect word discovery broader developmental literature. argue that (a) build diverse collection chunks, including words, multi-word phrases, and sub-lexical units; (b) chunks have different processing times determined how...
Thematic roles characterise the functions of participants in events, but there is no agreement on how these are identified real world. In three experiments, we examined role identification push events supported by visual object-tracking system. Participants saw one to scenes with nine identical randomly moving circles. After a period random movement, two circles from and foil object were given different colours had identify their an active sentence, such as red pushed blue. It was found that...
abstract By the end of their first year, infants can interpret many different types complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants this age are also in early stages vocabulary development, producing words at around 12 months. The present work examined whether there meaningful individual differences infants’ ability to represent causal events scenes, these influence development. As part longitudinal Language 0–5 Project, 78 10-month-old were...
Abstract A strong predictor of children's language is performance on non‐word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects growth. Others argue knowledge language/language experience performance. complicating factor most studies focus school‐aged children, who have already mastered key skills. Here, we present a new task for English‐learning 2‐year‐olds, use it to assess...
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By the end of their first year, infants are able to interpret many different types complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants this age also in early stages vocabulary development, producing words at around 12 months. The present work examined whether there meaningful individual differences infants’ ability represent causal events scenes these influence development. As part longitudinal Language 0-5 Project, 78 10-month-old were tested on...
Error-based theories of language acquisition suggest that children, like adults, continuously make and evaluate predictions in order to reach an adult-like state use. However, while these have become extremely influential, their central claim - unpredictable input leads higher rates lasting change linguistic representations – has scarcely been tested. We designed a prime surprisal-based intervention study assess this claim. As predicted, both 5- 6-year-old children (n=72) adults showed pre-...
A strong predictor of children’s language is performance on non-word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects growth. Others argue knowledge language/language experience performance. complicating factor most studies focus school-aged children, who have already mastered key skills. Here, we present a new task for English-learning 2 year olds, use it to assess effect...