Does it help babies to understand that different objects (such as different dinosaurs) belong together into a category when they hear them all being called ‘dinosaur’? And what if they instead hear…
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Gert Westermann
Prof Gert Westermann (Lancaster University) is a LuCiD co-director since August 2018 currently leading the From Variation to Explanation research stream. His research is mainly concerned with early cognitive and language development but also with the question of how development shapes cognitive processing in adults. In his work he combines empirical approaches such as eye tracking of infants with computational modelling to build theories of cognitive change through development.
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