Gert Westermann

Gert Westermann

Lancaster University

H-index: 28

Europe-United Kingdom

About Gert Westermann

Gert Westermann, With an exceptional h-index of 28 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Lancaster University, specializes in the field of Cognitive Development, Curiosity, Developmental Psychology, Computational Modelling, Word Learning.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A validated caregiver-report measure of curiosity in children from 5 to 24 months

Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others

No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning

The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds

A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may explain developmental language disorder.

Face time: Effects of shyness and attention to faces on early word learning

Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking

Curious Choices: Infants’ moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history

Gert Westermann Information

University

Position

Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

3752

Citations(since 2020)

1441

Cited By

2884

hIndex(all)

28

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

52

i10Index(since 2020)

34

Email

University Profile Page

Lancaster University

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Gert Westermann Skills & Research Interests

Cognitive Development

Curiosity

Developmental Psychology

Computational Modelling

Word Learning

Top articles of Gert Westermann

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A validated caregiver-report measure of curiosity in children from 5 to 24 months

Elena C Altmann

Marina Bazhydai

Didar Karadağ

Gert Westermann

2024/3/11

Toddlers do not preferentially transmit generalizable information to others

Developmental Science

Didar Karadağ

Marina Bazhydai

Gert Westermann

2024/2/7

No need to forget, just keep the balance: Hebbian neural networks for statistical learning

Ángel Eugenio Tovar

Gert Westermann

2023/1/1

The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds

Cognition

Kin Chung Jacky Chan

Phoebe Shaw

Gert Westermann

2023/8/1

A maturational frequency discrimination deficit may explain developmental language disorder.

Psychological Review

Samuel David Jones

Hannah Jamieson Stewart

Gert Westermann

2023/7/27

Face time: Effects of shyness and attention to faces on early word learning

Language Development Research

Matt Hilton

Katherine E Twomey

Gert Westermann

2023/6/12

Rational inattention: A new theory of neurodivergent information seeking

Developmental Science

Samuel David Jones

Manon Wyn Jones

Kami Koldewyn

Gert Westermann

2023/5/2

Curious Choices: Infants’ moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history

Elena C Altmann

Marina Bazhydai

Gert Westermann

2023/11/27

How do autistic and neurotypical children’s interests influence their accuracy during novel word learning?

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Charlotte Rothwell

Gert Westermann

Calum Hartley

2023/8/2

ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time

Jessica Kosie

Martin Zettersten

Rana Abu-Zhaya

Dima Amso

Mireille Babineau

...

2023/1/10

The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning

Child Development

Lizhi Ma

Katherine Twomey

Gert Westermann

2022/9

Investigating the effect of synchronized movement on toddlers’ word learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Marina Bazhydai

Han Ke

Hannah Thomas

Malcolm KY Wong

Gert Westermann

2022/11/24

Emergent modularity and U-shaped learning in a constructivist neural network learning the English past tense

Gert Westermann

2022/5/16

The role of metacognitive abilities and curiosity in learning

Xiaoyun Chen

Katherine Twomey

Gert Westermann

2022/11/21

The relationship between curiosity-driven motor exploration and language development.

Samantha Durrant

Mutinta Kampengele

Heather Turnbull

Gert Westermann

Katherine E Twomey

2022/5/15

Under-resourced or overloaded? Rethinking working memory deficits in developmental language disorder.

Psychological Review

Samuel David Jones

Gert Westermann

2022/11

Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Ingmar Visser

Christina Bergmann

Krista Byers-Heinlein

Rodrigo Dal Ben

Wlodzislaw Duch

...

2021/4

Curiosity enhances incidental object encoding in 8-month-old infants

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Xiaoyun Chen

Katherine E Twomey

Gert Westermann

2022/11/1

Do toddlers preferentially transmit generalizable information? A Registered Report.

Didar Karadağ

Marina Bazhydai

Gert Westermann

2022/2/8

Prediction cannot be directly trained: An extension to Jones and Westermann (2021)

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Samuel David Jones

Gert Westermann

2022/10/17

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Co-Authors

H-index: 53
Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas

Birkbeck, University of London

H-index: 51
Thomas Shultz

Thomas Shultz

McGill University

H-index: 48
Denis Mareschal

Denis Mareschal

Birkbeck, University of London

H-index: 44
Eduardo R Miranda

Eduardo R Miranda

University of Plymouth

H-index: 41
Padraic Monaghan

Padraic Monaghan

Lancaster University

H-index: 31
Vincent Reid

Vincent Reid

University of Waikato

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