News & Events
Photography Exhibition
From the 11th of March until the 11th of April 2011, Development@Cardiff participated in a documentary photography exhibition at Cardiff Central Library as part of National Science and Engineering week. The exhibition gave the public a rare glimpse into the process of discovering development and an opportunity to see the research activities of Development@Cardiff.
The exhibition photos and more complete descriptions are available here.
Photos by David Sinden.
Family Picnic Week
Cardiff University undergraduates helped Research Director Dr Merideth Gattis host a picnic on the university lawns in May 2009 as part of National Family Week. The event set a world record for the largest picnic across multiple venues, with over 15,000 people participating across the UK. Don't miss the gorgeous picnic photos!
Have a look at our various newsletters, posters and press releases which can be found below.
Documents
Newsletters
2009/10 Newsletter
2007 Newsletter
2006 Newsletter
Internships Available
We are currently recruiting research interns to work with our research group on a short-term project for three to nine months. More information is available here.
Conference Posters
2011
- The King Louie Effect: Overimitation is related to social traits
- The King Louie Effect on a noncausal task: Faithful imitation is related to social traits
2010
- The Stability of Infant Preferences for Socially Based Attention: Observational, Experimental and Longitudinal Analyses
- Individual Differences in Early Imitation are Associated with Temperament
- Goal-Directed Imitation: State or Trait?
- Imitation in Early Infancy: The case of Emotion Matching
2009
2008
- Assessing Infants' Intention Understanding and Imitation Though a Video Method
- Parent report of imitation in the Cardiff Imitation and Mimicry Inventory (CIMI)
- Is vocal imitation in children goal directed?
2007
Awards
Harriet Over won the 2008 Prize for Early Promise from Cardiff University
Elena Hoicka won the 2009 George Butterworth Young Scientist Award from the European Society for Developmental Psychology
News & Media
- Babies know a joke when they hear it (February 2012)
- Babies can tell whether you made a mistake or not from the tone of your voice (January 2012)
- Ducks say moo (December 2011)
- Profs and Politicians Pair Up (October 2011)
- Toddler Communication - Infants can understand intentions through tone of voice alone (Jan 2012)
- Cardiff University research finds babies can understand parents’ meaning even when speaking in Greek (Jan 2012)
- Humour opens up a new chapter in teaching toddlers to love story time (Dec 2011)
- Group out to find what makes toddlers tick? (June 2008)
- Baby Steps: Get Your Baby Laughing (June 2008)
- BPS Research Digest - Little Comedians (April 2008)
- icWales - Study reveals babies’ get the joke (7th March 2008)
- News Wales - Toddlers get the joke (6th March 2008)
- Science watch- The joke's in you (Nov 2007)
- BBC Wales - Video insight into babies' minds (July 2005)