Dr. Emily Mather. Contact Details

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1 Dr. Emily Mather Contact Details Address, University of Hull, Hull, UK. HU6 7RX. Telephone +44 (0) Academic Employment University of Hull Lecturer 2012 to date Post-doctoral research fellow (with Dr. Zachary Estes) Lexical integration: Properties, predictors, and consequences of a core language skill University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology Post-doctoral researcher (with Professor Kim Plunkett) The role of novelty in word learning Education University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences PhD (Awarded without corrections) Supervisors: Dr. Graham Schafer, Dr. Carmel Houston-Price External examiner: Dr. Alan Slater Novelty preference and effects of labelling in the second year of life MSc Research Methods in Psychology (Distinction) BSc (Hons) Psychology (2i)

2 Publications Mather, E. (2013). Novelty, attention, and challenges for developmental psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:491. Mather, E. (2013). Bootstrapping the early lexicon: How do children use old knowledge to create new meanings? Frontiers in Psychology, 4:96. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2012). The role of novelty in early word learning. Cognitive Science, 36(7), Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2011). Same items, different order: Effects of temporal variability on infant categorization. Cognition, 119(3), Mather, E., Schafer, G., and Houston-Price, C. (2011). The impact of novel labels on visual processing during infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(4), Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2011). Mutual exclusivity and phonological novelty constrain word learning at 16 months. Journal of Child Language, 38(5), Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2010). Novel labels support ten-month-olds attention to novel objects. In K. Franich, K. M. Iserman, & L. L. Keil (Eds.) Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp ). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2010). Novel labels support 10-month-olds attention to novel objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105(3), Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). Rapid word mapping at 10 months of age. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). Learning words over time: The role of stimulus repetition in mutual exclusivity. Infancy, 14(1), Mather, E. (2009). Review of McCune, L. (2008). How children learn to learn language. Journal of Child Language, 36(4), Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2008). Remembering when words are mutually exclusive. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Houston-Price, C., Mather, E., and Sakkalou, E. (2007). Discrepancy between parental reports of infants receptive vocabulary and infants behaviour in a preferential looking task. Journal of Child Language, 34(4), Grants and Awards 2013 University of Hull departmental research committee award for laboratory refurbishment ( 5,849) 2012 University of Hull departmental research committee award for laboratory equipment ( 5,245) 2008 Junior travel award for Les Cohen Festschrift Infant cognition from the information-processing perspective: Recent advances, future directions ($400) 2007 Named post-doctoral researcher on Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant, ( 300,993; grant code BBE ) 2

3 Grants and Awards (continued) 2006 and earlier University of Reading Social Sciences Studentship ( 44,500) International Society on Infant Studies Early Career Researcher Travel Award ($1,000) Experimental Psychology Society Grindley grant British Psychological Society postgraduate conference bursary British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference student bursary University of Hull Teaching Experience 31114: Theory and Explorations I: Year 1 developmental psychology lectures ( ) 31007: Design, Execution, and Analysis of Research II: Year 1 practical classes in research methods and statistics ( ) 31035: Research Project: Supervision of Year 3 undergraduate research projects ( ) PS210: Language and Thought: Guest lecturer on Year 2 course (2011; Week 5: Semantics & Week 10: Categorisation). University of Oxford Elementary Statistics for Psycholinguistics: Invited lecture for postgraduate research students (2010; with the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics) Psycholinguistics Paper XII: Tutor (2008; with the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) EP/PPP prelims: Tutor (2007/08; 2008/09) Academic Activities Information officer, British Psychological Society Developmental Section Committee ( ) Co-wrote scientific proposal with Professor Kim Plunkett for the three-year grant The role of novelty in word learning, awarded by the BBSRC (BBE ). ESRC Rapporteur for end-of-grant report (2012) Review Editor for Frontiers in Developmental Psychology ( ) Conference reviewer for the Cognitive Science Society (2012) Ad-hoc reviewer: Acta Psychologica, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, Infancy, Infant and Child Development, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Symposium chair: Mutual exclusivity in word learning: mechanism and development, presented to the 2008 Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada. Symposium organiser: Early lexical development: Theoretical and methodological advances, presented to the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference 2007, University of Plymouth, UK. 3

4 University of Hull Administration Undergraduate admissions tutor ( ) Academic co-ordinator for Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) scheme ( ) Panel member of MSc Health Psychology steering committee ( ) Selected Papers Conference Presentations Mather, E. (2012). Word learning and attention to novelty. Paper presented to the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, University of Strathclyde, UK. Fisher-Thompson, D., Goldberg, J., and Mather, E. (2012). Deconstructing infant gaze and novelty preferences: Shifting smart is harder than staying put. Paper presented to the Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). Novel labels support 10-month-olds attention to novel objects. Paper presented to the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). Rapid word mapping at 10 months of age. Paper presented to the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2008). The impact of general processing factors on mutually exclusive responding. Paper presented to the Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2007). Mutual exclusivity as an intermodal preferential looking task. Paper presented to the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, University of Plymouth, UK. Mather, E., Schafer, G., and Houston-Price, C. (2006). Effects of labelling on familiarity and novelty preferences. Paper presented to the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Mather, E., Schafer, G., and Houston-Price, C. (2005). Preferences for familiarity and novelty in the second year of life. Paper presented to the British Psychological Society Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, UK. Selected Posters Estes, Z., Jones, L. L., and Mather, E. (2011). Lexical priming without similarity or association. Poster presented to the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2010). The role of novelty in the mutual exclusivity response. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2010). The impact of labels and processing load on 10-month-olds categorization. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). The novelty bias in word learning at 16 months of age. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. 4

5 Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2009). Early origins of mutual exclusivity at 10 months of age. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2008). Remembering when words are mutually exclusive. Poster presented to the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC. Mather, E. and Plunkett, K. (2008). Stimulus repetition effects in mutual exclusivity. Poster presented to the New Directions in Word Learning Workshop, University of York, UK. Mather, E., Schafer, G., and Houston-Price, C. (2006). The micro-dynamics of attention to familiarity and novelty in infants. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan. Houston-Price, C., Sakkalou, E., Mather, E., and Szklarek, K. (2005). The accuracy of parental vocabulary report using the CDI. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. Mather, E. and Schafer, G. (2005). Familiarity and novelty preferences for visual stimuli in the second year of life: Initial findings and new directions. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. Last updated: 1 st August