Professor Gert Westermann

Professor

Research Grants

Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme (PI, £1,050,000), Interdisciplinary Research on Infant Development, 2015-2019

British Academy Small Grant (co-PI, with Eugenio Parise; £9,458), Categorization Processes in 9-­Month-­Old Infants: Ostensive Labelling vs. Common Visual Features, 2014-2016

LuCiD: ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (co-PI with 21 others, PI: Elena Lieven; £9.3 million), 2014-2019

Lichtenberg Fellowship,University of Göttingen (€68,000), Germany, January - July, 2013

Lancaster University Friends Programme Grant (PI, with Melissa Allen, Dina Lew, Katie Alcock, Gavin Bremner, Karen Mattock; £4,191), Support for publicity and student projects at the Lancaster Babylab, 2011-2012

ESRC Research Grant (PI; £99,937), Multisensory processing of objects in infancy, 2011-2012

British Academy Small Grant (co-PI, with Louise Bunce; £7,118), Young children's understanding of the fantasy-reality distinction: perceptual or conceptual processing?, 2010-2011

ESRC Research Grant (PI; £105,468), The effect of labels on category formation in infancy, 2009-2011

British Academy Small Grant (PI; £3,502), Investigating past tense formation in adults: a neurophysiological study, 2008-2009

ESRC Research Grant (PI; £288,082), Understanding the processing of verb inflections through statistical analyses, experiments and neural networks, 2006-2009

Royal Society Research Grant (co PI with Joseph T. Devlin; £9,400), TMS investigations of morphology in Broca's area, 2006-2007

From perceptual to language-mediated categorization
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 19/01/2014 In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 369, 1634
Journal article

A student's guide to developmental psychology
Harris, M., Westermann, G. 2014 Hove : Psychology Press. 320 p. ISBN: 9781848720176.
Book

Some thoughts on curiosity in infants and neural network models
Westermann, G., Twomey, K. 2014
Conference paper

Infants' sensitivity to the congruence of others' emotions and actions
Hepach, R., Westermann, G. 05/2013 In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 115, 1, p. 16-29. 14 p.
Journal article

Prespeech motor learning in a neural network using reinforcement
Warlaumont, A., Westermann, G., Buder, E., Oller, D.K. 2013 In: Neural Networks. 38, p. 64-75. 12 p.
Journal article

Mechanisms of developmental change in infant categorization
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 10/2012 In: Cognitive Development. 27, 4, p. 367-382. 16 p.
Journal article

A neuroconstructivist model of past tense development and processing
Westermann, G., Ruh, N. 2012 In: Psychological Review. 119, 3, p. 649-667. 19 p.
Journal article

In search of the developmental mechanisms of multi-sensory integration
Mareschal, D., Westermann, G., Althaus, N. 2012 In: Multisensory Development. Oxford : Oxford University Press p. 342-359. 18 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Self-production facilitates and adult input interferes in a neural network model of infant vowel imitation.
Warlaumont, A., Westermann, G., Oller, D.K. 2011 In: Proceedings of AISB 2011. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour p. 8-12. 5 p.
Paper

What computers have shown us about the mind
Monaghan, P., Keidel, J., Burton, M., Westermann, G. 08/2010 In: Psychologist. 23, 8, p. 642-645. 4 p.
Journal article

The shape of words in the brain
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 01/2010 In: Cognition. 114, 1, p. 19-28. 10 p.
Journal article

A unitary account of conceptual representations of animate/inanimate categories
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 2010 In: Psihologija. 43, 2, p. 155-165. 11 p.
Journal article

Neuroconstructivism
Westermann, G., Thomas, M.S.C., Karmiloff-Smith, A. 2010 In: The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development. Chichester : Wiley Blackwell p. 723-748. 26 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Variability driven animacy effects: evidence of structural, not conceptual differences in processing animates and inanimates
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 2010 In: Psihologija. 43, 1, p. 65-83. 19 p.
Journal article

OXlearn: a new MATLAB-based simulation tool for connectionist models
Ruh, N., Westermann, G. 11/2009 In: Behavior Research Methods. 41, 4, p. 1138-1143. 6 p.
Journal article

Modelling the transition from perceptual to conceptual organization
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 07/2009 In: Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition II. SINGAPORE : WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD p. 153-164. 12 p. ISBN: 9789812834225.
Conference contribution

Connectionist approaches to language learning
Westermann, G., Ruh, N., Plunkett, K. 03/2009
Scientific review

An eye-tracking study of animate objects
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 2009 In: Psihologija. 42, 3, p. 307-327. 21 p.
Journal article

An eye-tracking study of inanimate objects
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 2009 In: Psihologija. 42, 4, p. 417-436. 20 p.
Journal article

Shared and/or seperate representations of animate/inanimate categories: an ERP study
Kovic, V., Plunkett, K., Westermann, G. 2009 In: Psihologija. 42, 1, p. 5-26. 22 p.
Journal article

Simulating German verb inflection with a constructivist neural network
Ruh, N., Westermann, G. 2009 In: Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II. Singapore : World Scientific p. 313-324. 12 p. ISBN: 978-981-283-422-5.
Conference contribution

Studying development in the 21(st) Century
Sirois, S., Spratling, M., Thomas, M.S.C., Westermann, G., Mareschal, D., Johnson, M.H. 06/2008 In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31, 3, 12 p.
Editorial

Implicit vs. explicit learning in German noun plurals
Kovic, V., Westermann, G., Plunkett, K. 2008 In: Psihologija. 41, 4, p. 387-411. 25 p.
Journal article

Neuroconstructivism
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D., Johnson, M.H., Sirois, S., Spratling, M.W., Thomas, M.S.C. 01/2007 In: Developmental Science. 10, 1, p. 75-83. 9 p.
Journal article

Neuroconstructivism Vol. 2: Perspectives and Prospects
Mareschal, D., Sirois, S., Westermann, G., Johnson, M.H. 2007 Oxford : Oxford University Press. 274 p. ISBN: 9780198529927.
Book

Neuroconstructivism, Vol. I: How the brain constructs cognition.
Mareschal, D., Johnson, M.H., Sirois, S., Spratling, M.W., Thomas, M.S.C., Westermann, G. 2007 Oxford : Oxford University Press. 274 p. ISBN: 9780198529903.
Book

Broca's area and inflectional morphology: evidence from Broca's aphasia and computer modeling
Penke, M., Westermann, G. 05/2006 In: Cortex. 42, 4, p. 563-576. 14 p.
Journal article

Modeling developmental cognitive neuroscience
Westermann, G., Sirois, S., Shultz, T.R., Mareschal, D. 05/2006
Scientific review

Evidence of rapid correlation-based perceptual category learning by 4-month-olds
Mareschal, D., Powell, D., Westermann, G., Volein, A. 12/2005 In: Infant and Child Development. 14, 5, p. 445-457. 13 p.
Journal article

A new model of sensorimotor coupling in the development of speech
Westermann, G., Miranda, E.R. 05/2004 In: Brain and Language. 89, 2, p. 393-400. 8 p.
Journal article

From parts to wholes: mechanisms of development in infant visual object processing
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 03/2004 In: Infancy. 5, 2, p. 131-151. 21 p.
Journal article

Modelling asymmetric infant categorization with the representational acuity hypothesis
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 2004 In: Connectionist models of cognition and perception II. SINGAPORE : WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD p. 95-104. 10 p. ISBN: 981-238-805-2.
Conference contribution

Evolution of an optimal lexicon under constraints from embodiment
Zuidema, W., Westermann, G. 2003 In: Artificial Life. 9, 4, p. 387-402. 16 p.
Journal article

Models of atypical development must also be models of normal development
Westermann, G., Mareschal, D. 1/12/2002 In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25, 6, 2 p.
Editorial

Musical data mining for electronic music distribution
Pachet, F., Westermann, G., Laigre, D. 2001 In: First International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, 2001. Proceedings. . LOS ALAMITOS : IEEE COMPUTER SOC p. 101-106. 6 p. ISBN: 0-7695-1284-4.
Conference contribution

A constructivist dual-representation model of verb inflection
Westermann, G. 2000 In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N.J. : LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL p. 977-982. 6 p. ISBN: 0-8058-3879-1.
Conference contribution

Modelling cognitive development with constructivist neural networks
Westermann, G. 2000 In: Connectionist models of learning, development and evolution. Godalming : Springer Verlag London Ltd p. 123-132. 10 p. ISBN: 1-85233-354-5.
Conference contribution

Single mechanism but not single route: Learning verb inflections in constructivist neural networks
Westermann, G. 12/1999 In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22, 6, 2 p.
Comment/debate

A constructivist neural network model of German verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia
Westermann, G., Willshaw, D., Penke, M. 1999 In: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN99). Edison : INST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS INSPEC INC p. 916-921. 6 p. ISBN: 0-85296-721-7.
Conference contribution

Emergent modularity and U-shaped learning in a constructivist neural network learning the English past tense
Westermann, G. 1998 In: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N.J. : LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL p. 1130-1135. 6 p. ISBN: 0-8058-3231-9.
Conference contribution