Profiles
Dr Chi-hsin Chen
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Dr Chi-hsin Chen can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Psychology
- Language development
- Category learning
- Word learning
- Statistical learning
- Parent-child interaction
- Experimental methods
- Observational methods
- Quantitative research
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology
Qualifications
Education
Joint Ph.D., Cognitive Science & Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, USA
M.A., Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
B.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Professional Experience
2016-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Ohio State University, USA
2014-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, USA
Key publications
(2020) 'What leads to coordinated attention in parent–toddler interactions? Children's hearing status matters' Developmental Science 23, (3) , DOI
(2019) 'Effects of children’s hearing loss on the synchrony between parents’ object naming and children’s attention' Infant Behavior and Development 57, 101322-101322 , DOI
(2017) 'Learning Object Names at Different Hierarchical Levels Using Cross-Situational Statistics' Cognitive Science 42, 591-605 , DOI
(2021) 'Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning' Child Development 92, (5) 1889-1905 , DOI
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Developmental Psychology, language development, cognitive development
Research
Research
Research interests
Word learning, category learning, statistical language learning, attention, the dynamics of parent-child interactions, hearing loss
Publications
Publications
Key publications
(2020) 'What leads to coordinated attention in parent–toddler interactions? Children's hearing status matters' Developmental Science 23, (3) , DOI
(2019) 'Effects of children’s hearing loss on the synchrony between parents’ object naming and children’s attention' Infant Behavior and Development 57, 101322-101322 , DOI
(2017) 'Learning Object Names at Different Hierarchical Levels Using Cross-Situational Statistics' Cognitive Science 42, 591-605 , DOI
(2021) 'Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning' Child Development 92, (5) 1889-1905 , DOI
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2022) 'Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning' Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 220, , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning' Child Development 92, (5) 1889-1905 , DOI
(2021) 'The distributional properties of exemplars affect category learning and generalization' Scientific Reports 11, (1) , DOI
(2020) 'Action prediction during real‐time parent‐infant interactions' Developmental Science 24, (3) , DOI
(2020) 'What leads to coordinated attention in parent–toddler interactions? Children's hearing status matters' Developmental Science 23, (3) , DOI
(2019) 'Effects of children’s hearing loss on the synchrony between parents’ object naming and children’s attention' Infant Behavior and Development 57, 101322-101322 , DOI
(2019) 'Parental Linguistic Input and Its Relation to Toddlers’ Visual Attention in Joint Object Play: A Comparison Between Children with Normal Hearing and Children With Hearing Loss' Infancy 24, (4) 589-612 , DOI
(2018) 'Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children's Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior' Journal of Visualized Experiments (141) , DOI
(2017) 'Learning Object Names at Different Hierarchical Levels Using Cross-Situational Statistics' Cognitive Science 42, 591-605 , DOI
(2016) 'Tracking Multiple Statistics: Simultaneous Learning of Object Names and Categories in English and Mandarin Speakers' Cognitive Science 41, (6) 1485-1509 , DOI
(2016) 'Grounding statistical learning in context: The effects of learning and retrieval contexts on cross-situational word learning' Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24, (3) 920-926 , DOI
Chapters
(2020) 'Using head-mounted eye-trackers to study sensory-motor dynamics of coordinated attention' New Perspectives on Early Social-Cognitive Development Elsevier
(2020) 'How early auditory experience affects children’s ability to learn spoken words' The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition Oxford University Press, USA
(2019) 'Mechanisms of Cross-situational Learning: Behavioral and Computational Evidence' Advances in Child Development and Behavior Elsevier 37-63 , DOI
(2018) 'Embodied cognition in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants: Preliminary findings' Evidence-Based Practices in Deaf Education Oxford University Press
Conference Papers
(2015) 'The effects of learning and retrieval contexts on cross-situational word learning' 2015 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) 8-/-0/20158-/-0/2015IEEE , DOI