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

Representative Publications:

• Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2020). Seeing iconic gesture promotes first- and second-order verb generalization in preschoolers. Child Development. 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
• Aussems, S. (2019). How seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children. Language Acquisition, 27(1), 68-70. doi: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1624759
• Aussems, S., & Vogt., P. (2018). Adults use distributional statistics for word learning in a conservative way. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 12(2), 232-242. doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2870161
• Aussems, S., Kwok, N., & Kita, S. (2017). GestuRe and ACtion Exemplar (GRACE) video database: Stimuli for research on manners of human locomotion and iconic gestures. Behavior Research Methods, 50(3), 1270-1284. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0942-2