Gert Westermann
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Bazhydai M, Ke H, Thomas H, Wong M, Westermann G
Front Psychol
. 2022 Dec;
13:1008404.
PMID: 36506988
The effect of interpersonal behavioral synchrony on children's behavior is an emerging field rich with research potential. While studies demonstrate its effect on affiliative and prosocial outcomes, the role of...
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Tovar A, Westermann G
Cognition
. 2022 Nov;
230:105176.
PMID: 36442955
Language processing in humans has long been proposed to rely on sophisticated learning abilities including statistical learning. Endress and Johnson (E&J, 2021) recently presented a neural network model for statistical...
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Jones S, Westermann G
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2022 Sep;
65(10):3930-3933.
PMID: 36167076
In January 2021, we published an article titled "Predictive Processing and Developmental Language Disorder" in the . The current commentary provides an important extension to this work. Specifically, we aim...
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Chen X, Twomey K, Westermann G
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2022 Jul;
223:105508.
PMID: 35850003
Recent research with adults indicates that curiosity induced by uncertainty enhances learning and memory outcomes and that the resolution of curiosity has a special role in curiosity-driven learning. However, the...
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Ma L, Twomey K, Westermann G
Child Dev
. 2022 May;
93(5):1584-1600.
PMID: 35634974
Others' emotional expressions affect individuals' attention allocation in social interactions, which are integral to the process of word learning. However, the impact of perceived emotions on word learning is not...
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Under-resourced or overloaded? Rethinking working memory deficits in developmental language disorder
Jones S, Westermann G
Psychol Rev
. 2022 Apr;
129(6):1358-1372.
PMID: 35482644
Dominant theoretical accounts of developmental language disorder (DLD) commonly invoke working memory capacity limitations. In the current report, we present an alternative view: That working memory in DLD is not...
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Visser I, Bergmann C, Byers-Heinlein K, Dal Ben R, Duch W, Forbes S, et al.
Behav Brain Sci
. 2022 Feb;
45:e35.
PMID: 35139960
Yarkoni's analysis clearly articulates a number of concerns limiting the generalizability and explanatory power of psychological findings, many of which are compounded in infancy research. ManyBabies addresses these concerns via...
18.
Silverstein P, Feng J, Westermann G, Parise E, Twomey K
Open Mind (Camb)
. 2022 Jan;
5:174-188.
PMID: 35024530
Gaze following is an early-emerging skill in infancy argued to be fundamental to joint attention and later language development. However, how gaze following emerges is a topic of great debate....
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Ishibashi M, Twomey K, Westermann G, Uehara I
Infant Behav Dev
. 2021 Aug;
65:101631.
PMID: 34416633
Scale errors are observed when young children make mistakes by attempting to put their bodies into miniature versions of everyday objects. Such errors have been argued to arise from children's...
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Westermann G, Jones S
Front Psychol
. 2021 Jul;
12:688908.
PMID: 34276514
Brain imaging studies of English past tense inflection have found dissociations between regular and irregular verbs, but no coherent picture has emerged to explain how these dissociations arise. Here we...