Gert Westermann
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Jones S, Rauwolf P, Westermann G
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39924396
The role of behaviour - choices, actions, and habits - in shaping neurodivergent development remains unclear. In this forum article we introduce computational rationality as a framework for understanding dynamic...
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Altmann E, Bazhydai M, Karadag D, Westermann G
Infancy
. 2025 Jan;
30(1):e70001.
PMID: 39853857
Humans are curious. Especially children are known for their drive to explore and learn, which is crucial for developing in and navigating through our complex world. Naturally, some children may...
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Jones S, Jones M, Koldewyn K, Westermann G
Dev Sci
. 2024 Nov;
28(1):e13587.
PMID: 39506266
Astle, Johnson, and Akarca (2024) and Mani (2024) raise important questions about the representativeness of the theory and neural network model presented in Jones et al. (2024). In response, we...
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Altmann E, Bazhydai M, Westermann G
Cognition
. 2024 Oct;
254:105976.
PMID: 39476657
Infants explore the world around them based on their intrinsically motivated curiosity. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying such curiosity-driven exploratory behaviour remain largely unknown. Here, infants could freely explore two...
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Hilton M, Twomey K, Westermann G
Infancy
. 2024 Sep;
29(6):877-893.
PMID: 39285516
Previous work has found that shy children show chance-level disambiguation and retention of novel word meanings in a typical lab-based word learning task. This effect could be explained in terms...
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Jones S, Jones M, Koldewyn K, Westermann G
Dev Sci
. 2024 Mar;
27(4):e13492.
PMID: 38553823
This paper presents rational inattention as a new, transdiagnostic theory of information seeking in neurodevelopmental conditions that have uneven cognitive and socio-emotional profiles, including developmental language disorder (DLD), dyslexia, dyscalculia...
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Karadag D, Bazhydai M, Westermann G
Dev Sci
. 2024 Feb;
27(4):e13479.
PMID: 38327112
Children actively and selectively transmit information to others based on the type of information and the context during learning. Four- to 7-year-old children preferentially transmit generalizable information in teaching-like contexts....
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Rothwell C, Westermann G, Hartley C
J Autism Dev Disord
. 2023 Aug;
54(9):3301-3315.
PMID: 37530913
Word learning depends on attention - children must focus on the right things at the right times. However, autistic children often display restricted interests, limiting their intake of stimuli during...
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Jones S, Stewart H, Westermann G
Psychol Rev
. 2023 Jul;
131(3):695-715.
PMID: 37498700
Auditory perceptual deficits are widely observed among children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Yet, the nature of these deficits and the extent to which they explain speech and language problems...
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Chan K, Shaw P, Westermann G
Cognition
. 2023 May;
237:105475.
PMID: 37148638
A large body of research based on a specific stimulus set (dinosaur/fish) has argued that auditory labels and novel communicative signals (such as beeps used in a communicative context) facilitate...