Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech (2022)
Journal Article
Kolak, J., Monaghan, P., & Taylor, G. (2022). Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 28, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000198

Language in touchscreen apps could be useful as an additional source of children’s language input, alongside child directed speech (CDS) and books. Here we performed the first analysis of language in apps, as compared with books and CDS. We analysed... Read More about Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech.

The development of contour processing : evidence from physiology and psychophysics (2014)
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Taylor, G., Hipp, D., Moser, A., Dickerson, K., & Gerhardstein, P. (2014). The development of contour processing : evidence from physiology and psychophysics. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00719

Object perception and pattern vision depend fundamentally upon the extraction of contours from the visual environment. In adulthood, contour or edge-level processing is supported by the Gestalt heuristics of proximity, collinearity, and closure. Less... Read More about The development of contour processing : evidence from physiology and psychophysics.

Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration (2014)
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Taylor, G., & Herbert, J. (2014). Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(4), 770-782. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21147

Deferred imitation tasks have shown that manipulations at encoding can enhance infant learning and memory performance within an age, suggesting that brain maturation alone cannot fully account for all developmental changes in early memory abilities.... Read More about Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration.

Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory (2012)
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Taylor, G., & Herbert, J. (2013). Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12002

In the present study, eye tracker methodology was used to explore whether there were age-related changes in the focus of infant attention during a learning event and subsequent recognition memory for event features. Six- and 9-month old infants watch... Read More about Eye tracking infants : investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory.