Outline of work: Interests: Developmental Psychology, Gesture Studies, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development PhD Fellowship in Language and Learning available now: Closing date: 20 March 2022 Personal webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/Link opens in a new window Contact Details

Representative Publications:

• Aussems, S., Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S. (in press). Prior experience with actions facilitates 3-year-old children’s verb learningLink opens in a new window. 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 functionLink opens in a new window. 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 preschoolersLink opens in a new window. 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 eventsLink opens in a new window. Child Development, 90(4), 1123-1137. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12988