Gert Westermann - Publications

Affiliations: 
2011- Psychology Lancaster University, Bailrigg, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
Connectionism, cognitive development, categorisation, language acquisition
Website:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/about-us/people/gert-westermann

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Year Citation  Score
2024 Altmann EC, Bazhydai M, Westermann G. Curious Choices: Infants' moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history. Cognition. 254: 105976. PMID 39476657 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105976  0.769
2024 Hilton M, Twomey KE, Westermann G. Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. PMID 39285516 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12623  0.805
2024 Jones SD, Jones MW, Koldewyn K, Westermann G. Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking. Developmental Science. e13492. PMID 38553823 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13492  0.53
2024 Karadağ D, Bazhydai M, Westermann G. Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others. Developmental Science. e13479. PMID 38327112 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13479  0.755
2023 Rothwell C, Westermann G, Hartley C. How do Autistic and Neurotypical Children's Interests Influence their Accuracy During Novel Word Learning? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PMID 37530913 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-023-06066-8  0.82
2023 Jones SD, Stewart HJ, Westermann G. A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may explain developmental language disorder. Psychological Review. PMID 37498700 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000436  0.475
2023 Chan KCJ, Shaw P, Westermann G. The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds. Cognition. 237: 105475. PMID 37148638 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105475  0.799
2022 Bazhydai M, Ke H, Thomas H, Wong MKY, Westermann G. Investigating the effect of synchronized movement on toddlers' word learning. Frontiers in Psychology. 13: 1008404. PMID 36506988 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1008404  0.817
2022 Jones SD, Westermann G. Prediction Cannot Be Directly Trained: An Extension to Jones and Westermann (2021). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr. 1-4. PMID 36167076 DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00332  0.395
2022 Chen X, Twomey KE, Westermann G. Curiosity enhances incidental object encoding in 8-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 223: 105508. PMID 35850003 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105508  0.827
2022 Ma L, Twomey K, Westermann G. The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning. Child Development. PMID 35634974 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13799  0.794
2022 Jones SD, Westermann G. Under-resourced or overloaded? Rethinking working memory deficits in developmental language disorder. Psychological Review. PMID 35482644 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000338  0.471
2021 Silverstein P, Feng J, Westermann G, Parise E, Twomey KE. Infants Learn to Follow Gaze in Stages: Evidence Confirming a Robotic Prediction. Open Mind : Discoveries in Cognitive Science. 5: 174-188. PMID 35024530 DOI: 10.1162/opmi_a_00049  0.806
2021 Ishibashi M, Twomey KE, Westermann G, Uehara I. Children's scale errors and object processing: Early evidence for cross-cultural differences. Infant Behavior & Development. 65: 101631. PMID 34416633 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101631  0.79
2021 Westermann G, Jones S. Origins of Dissociations in the English Past Tense: A Synthetic Brain Imaging Model. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 688908. PMID 34276514 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688908  0.413
2020 Jones SD, Westermann G. Predictive Processing and Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr. 1-5. PMID 33375825 DOI: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00409  0.487
2020 Taxitari L, Twomey KE, Westermann G, Mani N. The Limits of Infants' Early Word Learning. Language Learning and Development : the Official Journal of the Society For Language Development. 16: 1-21. PMID 32256251 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2019.1670184  0.821
2020 Bazhydai M, Silverstein P, Parise E, Westermann G. Two-year old children preferentially transmit simple actions but not pedagogically demonstrated actions. Developmental Science. e12941. PMID 31981382 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12941  0.795
2020 Bazhydai M, Westermann G, Parise E. "I don't know but I know who to ask": 12-month-olds actively seek information from knowledgeable adults. Developmental Science. PMID 31954092 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12938  0.801
2020 Capelier-Mourguy A, Twomey KE, Westermann G. Neurocomputational Models Capture the Effect of Learned Labels on Infants’ Object and Category Representations Ieee Transactions On Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 12: 160-168. DOI: 10.1109/Tcds.2018.2882920  0.749
2019 Silverstein P, Gliga T, Westermann G, Parise E. Probing communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants: Two replication attempts of Yoon, Johnson and Csibra (2008). Infant Behavior & Development. 55: 77-87. PMID 30939296 DOI: 10.1016/J.Infbeh.2019.03.005  0.791
2019 Hilton M, Twomey KE, Westermann G. Taking their eye off the ball: How shyness affects children's attention during word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 183: 134-145. PMID 30870698 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2019.01.023  0.813
2018 Twomey KE, Westermann G. Learned Labels Shape Pre-speech Infants' Object Representations. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. 23: 61-73. PMID 30450015 DOI: 10.1111/Infa.12201  0.827
2018 Chen YC, Westermann G. Different novelties revealed by infants' pupillary responses. Scientific Reports. 8: 9533. PMID 29934594 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-27736-Z  0.699
2017 Tovar ÁE, Westermann G, Torres A. From altered synaptic plasticity to atypical learning: A computational model of Down syndrome. Cognition. 171: 15-24. PMID 29102805 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.021  0.37
2017 Tovar ÁE, Westermann G. A Neurocomputational Approach to Trained and Transitive Relations in Equivalence Classes. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 1848. PMID 29093696 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01848  0.324
2017 Twomey KE, Westermann G. Curiosity-based learning in infants: a neurocomputational approach. Developmental Science. PMID 29071759 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12629  0.815
2017 Twomey KE, Ma L, Westermann G. All the Right Noises: Background Variability Helps Early Word Learning. Cognitive Science. PMID 28940612 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12539  0.8
2017 Taylor G, Monaghan P, Westermann G. Investigating the association between children’s screen media exposure and vocabulary size in the UK Journal of Children and Media. 12: 51-65. DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2017.1365737  0.526
2016 Hilton M, Westermann G. The effect of shyness on children's formation and retention of novel word-object mappings. Journal of Child Language. 1-19. PMID 27916017 DOI: 10.1017/S030500091600057X  0.822
2016 Kaduk K, Bakker M, Juvrud J, Gredebäck G, Westermann G, Lunn J, Reid VM. Semantic processing of actions at 9months is linked to language proficiency at 9 and 18months. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PMID 26971305 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2016.02.003  0.776
2016 Westermann G. Experience-Dependent Brain Development as a Key to Understanding the Language System. Topics in Cognitive Science. PMID 26936770 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12194  0.342
2016 Althaus N, Westermann G. Labels constructively shape object categories in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PMID 26778468 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2015.11.013  0.814
2016 Hepach R, Westermann G. Pupillometry in Infancy Research Journal of Cognition and Development. 17: 359-377. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2015.1135801  0.36
2016 Linnert S, Reid V, Westermann G. ERP correlates of two separate top-down mechanisms in visual categorization International Journal of Psychophysiology. 108: 83. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ijpsycho.2016.07.264  0.772
2015 Ní Choisdealbha Á, Westermann G, Dunn K, Reid V. Dissociating associative and motor aspects of action understanding: Processing of dual-ended tools by 16-month-old infants. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology. PMID 26414113 DOI: 10.1111/Bjdp.12116  0.794
2015 Frost R, Twomey K, Taylor G, Westermann G, Monaghan P. Word for word Nursery World. 2015: 21-23. DOI: 10.12968/Nuwa.2015.15.21  0.789
2014 Westermann G, Mareschal D. From perceptual to language-mediated categorization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 369: 20120391. PMID 24324235 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0391  0.816
2014 Sirois S, Spratling M, Thomas M, Westermann G, Marechal D, Jhonson MH. Compendio de Neuroconstructivismo: cómo el cerebro construye la cognición Revista Argentina De Ciencias Del Comportamiento. 6: 60-81. DOI: 10.32348/1852.4206.V6.N1.6891  0.663
2013 Hepach R, Westermann G. Infants' sensitivity to the congruence of others' emotions and actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 115: 16-29. PMID 23454359 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.12.013  0.31
2013 Warlaumont AS, Westermann G, Buder EH, Oller DK. Prespeech motor learning in a neural network using reinforcement. Neural Networks : the Official Journal of the International Neural Network Society. 38: 64-75. PMID 23275137 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neunet.2012.11.012  0.39
2012 Westermann G, Ruh N. A neuroconstructivist model of past tense development and processing. Psychological Review. 119: 649-67. PMID 22545787 DOI: 10.1037/A0028258  0.812
2012 Chen Y, Westermann G. Twelve-month-old infants learn crossmodal associations between visual objects and natural sounds in ecologically valid situations Seeing and Perceiving. 25: 117-117. DOI: 10.1163/187847612X647504  0.696
2012 Mareschal D, Westermann G, Althaus N. In search of the mechanisms of multisensory development Multisensory Development. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586059.003.0015  0.747
2012 Sirois S, Mareschal D, Westermann G. Introduction Neuroconstructivism. 2. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529934.003.0001  0.753
2012 Mareschal D, Johnson MH, Sirois S, Spratling M, Thomas MSC, Westermann G. Neuroconstructivism - I: How the brain constructs cognition Neuroconstructivism - I: How the Brain Constructs Cognition. 1-286. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529910.001.0001  0.755
2012 Westermann G, Mareschal D. Mechanisms of developmental change in infant categorization Cognitive Development. 27: 367-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.08.004  0.807
2010 Kovic V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. The shape of words in the brain. Cognition. 114: 19-28. PMID 19828141 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2009.08.016  0.812
2010 Kovi? V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. A unitary account of conceptual representations of animate/inanimate categories Psihologija. 43: 155-165. DOI: 10.2298/Psi1002155K  0.715
2010 Kovi? V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. Variability driven animacy effects: Evidence of structural, not conceptual differences in processing animates and inanimates Psihologija. 43: 65-83. DOI: 10.2298/Psi1001065K  0.708
2010 Mareschal D, Westermann G. Mixing the Old with the New and the New with the Old: Combining Prior and Current Knowledge in Conceptual Change Neoconstructivism: the New Science of Cognitive Development. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331059.003.0011  0.726
2010 Monaghan P, Keidel J, Burton M, Westermann G. What computers have shown us about the mind Psychologist. 23: 642-645.  0.398
2009 Ruh N, Westermann G. OXlearn: a new MATLAB-based simulation tool for connectionist models. Behavior Research Methods. 41: 1138-43. PMID 19897821 DOI: 10.3758/Brm.41.4.1138  0.763
2009 Kovic V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. Eye-tracking study of inanimate objects | Vizuelno procesiranje neživih objekata - Studija očnih pokreta Psihologija. 42: 417-436. DOI: 10.2298/Psi0904417K  0.798
2009 Kovic V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. Eye-tracking study of animate objects | Vizuelno procesiranje živih objekata - Studija očnih pokreta Psihologija. 42: 307-327. DOI: 10.2298/PSI0903307K  0.775
2009 Kovic V, Plunkett K, Westermann G. Shared and/or separate representations of animate/inanimate categories - An erp study | Jedinstvene I/ILI različite mentalne reprezentacije živih i neživih objekata - erp studija Psihologija. 42: 5-26. DOI: 10.2298/Psi0901005K  0.8
2009 Westermann G, Ruh N, Plunkett K. Connectionist approaches to language learning Linguistics. 47: 413-452. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2009.015  0.799
2008 Sirois S, Spratling M, Thomas MS, Westermann G, Mareschal D, Johnson MH. Précis of neuroconstructivism: how the brain constructs cognition. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 321-31; discussion 3. PMID 18578929 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0800407X  0.797
2008 Kovi? V, Westermann G, Plunkett K. Implicit vs. explicit learning in German noun plurals | Implicitno naspram eksplicitnog učenja množine imenica u njemačkom jeziku Psihologija. 41: 387-411. DOI: 10.2298/Psi0804387K  0.72
2008 Thomas MSC, Westermann G, Mareschal D, Johnson MH, Sirois S, Spratling M. Studying development in the 21 century Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 345-356. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08004202  0.775
2007 Westermann G, Mareschal D, Johnson MH, Sirois S, Spratling MW, Thomas MS. Neuroconstructivism. Developmental Science. 10: 75-83. PMID 17181703 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00567.x  0.784
2006 Penke M, Westermann G. Broca's area and inflectional morphology: evidence from broca's aphasia and computer modeling. Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior. 42: 563-76. PMID 16881267 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70395-2  0.318
2006 Westermann G, Sirois S, Shultz TR, Mareschal D. Modeling developmental cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10: 227-32. PMID 16603407 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2006.03.009  0.79
2005 Mareschal D, Powell D, Westermann G, Volein A. Evidence of rapid correlation-based perceptual category learning by 4-month-olds Infant and Child Development. 14: 445-457. DOI: 10.1002/icd.415  0.818
2004 Westermann G, Mareschal D. From Parts to Wholes: Mechanisms of Development in Infant Visual Object Processing. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. 5: 131-151. PMID 33401785 DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0502_2  0.791
2004 Westermann G, Reck Miranda E. A new model of sensorimotor coupling in the development of speech. Brain and Language. 89: 393-400. PMID 15068923 DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00345-6  0.305
2004 Westermann G, Mareschal D. From parts to wholes: Mechanisms of development in infant visual object processing Infancy. 5: 131-151. DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0502_2  0.802
2003 Zuidema W, Westermann G. Evolution of an optimal lexicon under constraints from embodiment. Artificial Life. 9: 387-402. PMID 14761258 DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694834  0.333
2002 Westermann G, Mareschal D. Models of atypical development must also be models of normal development Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25: 771-772. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X02430130  0.757
1999 Westermann G. Single mechanism but not single route: Learning verb inflections in constructivist neural networks Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22: 1042-1043. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X9952222X  0.313
1999 Westermann G, Willshaw D, Penke M. Constructivist neural network model of German verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia Iee Conference Publication. 2: 916-921.  0.521
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