Changning
Shanghai
China
Professor Kim Plunkett, Director of the Oxford BabyLab, main research is in understanding the mechanisms of change that drive linguistic and cognitive development in infants and young children. He will be in town on October 25th to give us a taste of his research in the form of a seminar/lecture.
Synopsis
A fundamental problem in studying infants’ development is their inability to tell us what they know. The youngest ones can’t talk and the older ones might not understand what you’re asking them. Therefore, we have to devise cunning methods to figure out what they know and how they’ve learnt what they know. This talk will provide a brief overview of some of the methods that are employed in the Oxford University Babylab to study cognitive and linguistic development during the first two years of life.
Professor Plunkett will discuss questions such as:
How do infants learn to categorise objects?
How do infants learn the meanings of words?
Does their native language influence their concept development?
What are infants doing whilst they are asleep?
Answers to these questions provide insights into the nature of the underlying mechanisms that drive development from infancy to adulthood.
For full details of the event, please visit:
http://www.oxforduchina.org/upcoming-events.html#plunkett
Registration is free here: https://yoopay.cn/event/ProfKimPlunketttalk