Outline of work: Interests: Developmental Psychology, Gesture Studies, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development Personal webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/ Contact Details

Representative Publications:

• Aussems, S., Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S. (in press). Prior experience with actions facilitates 3-year-old children’s verb learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/xge0001071
• Zuniga-Montanez, C., Kita, S., Aussems, S., & Krott, A. (in press). Beyond the shape of things: Infants can be taught to generalise nouns by function. Psychological Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0956797621993107
• Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2021). Seeing iconic gesture promotes first- and second-order verb generalization in preschoolers. Child Development, 92(1), 124-141. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13392
• Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2019). Seeing iconic gestures with action events facilitates children’s memory of these events. Child Development, 90(4), 1123-1137. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12988