Event overview
The Psychology Department is pleased to welcome Dr Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia, who will talk about the role of language in early conceptual development
Noticing similarities between objects to group them into categories is one of the earliest developing human abilities. In this talk, I will raise the possibility that perceptual category learning may only occur in optimal conditions created by the type of paradigms developmental scientists use to elicit learning in the lab. In contrast, I will suggest that category learning "in the real world" requires supervision, which most commonly takes the form of caregivers naming things.
I will discuss how studying infants with reduced access to language (i.e. deaf infants born to hearing families) helps us understand the role of linguistic and non-linguistic scaffolding in early conceptual development and I will describe our current methodological efforts to quantify the conceptual luggage children acquire outside the lab.
Teodora Gliga is an Associate Professor at University of East Anglia and currently a PI on an ESRC grant investigating Conceptual Development in hearing and deaf infants. She is particularly fascinated with how little humans start figuring out the world they arrive in and she'll happily talk to you about language, concepts, sleep, autism, curiosity and how to increase the diversity of our research participants.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Mar 2024 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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