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Yr Athro Merideth Gattis
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PhD FLSW
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Timau a rolau for Merideth Gattis
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Canolfan Gwyddoniaeth Datblygiadol Dynol Prifysgol Caerdydd
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My research interests are in cognition and development, and my research is conducted with infants, children, and adults.
My research with Development@Cardiff seeks to move our understanding of cognition beyond the nature/nurture divide, asking detailed questions about how nature and nurture interact to produce thinking and reasoning.
To answer these questions, we compare human behaviour across different environmental factors. Those environmental factors include parenting practices as well as the broader influence of culture and language.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. ‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning. British Educational Research Journal 52 (3), pp.2257-2280. (10.1002/berj.70103)
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. Development and validation of the School Contexts of Outdoor Learning (SCOOL) scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology 112 103034. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103034)
- Junker, M. et al. 2026. Pathways to nature connection? A photo-elicitation exploration on how children engage with a nature connection programme. Environmental Education Research 32 (6), pp.1697-1725. (10.1080/13504622.2025.2600603)
2025
- Godwin, E. et al., 2025. Making outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a case study. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning (10.1080/14729679.2025.2601844)
- Mitev, K. et al., 2025. Shifting horizons: Significant life events and pro-environmental behaviour change in early adulthood. PLOS Climate 4 (10) e0000709. (10.1371/journal.pclm.0000709)
2024
- Gattis, M. et al. 2024. Knowledge of development during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood: psychometric properties of the domains of development instrument. International Journal of Behavioral Development 48 (5), pp.474-482. (10.1177/01650254241265586)
- Henderson, L. et al., 2024. Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students. Journal of Environmental Psychology 96 102343. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102343)
- Perra, O. et al., 2024. Attention control in preterm and term 5-month-old infants: Cross-task stability increases with gestational age. Infancy 29 (3), pp.437-458. (10.1111/infa.12574)
- Truong, Q. C. et al., 2024. Applying Rasch methodology to examine and enhance precision of the baby care questionnaire. Journal of Child and Family Studies 33 , pp.166-178. (10.1007/s10826-023-02772-0)
2022
- Mascheroni, E. et al., 2022. The role of experience in parenting beliefs of British and Italian women during pregnancy. Infant Mental Health Journal 43 (6), pp.835-848. (10.1002/imhj.22014)
- Ionio, C. et al., 2022. Caring for twins during infancy: A systematic review of the literature on sleeping and feeding practices amongst parents of twins. Journal of Neonatal Nursing 28 (5), pp.305-311. (10.1016/j.jnn.2021.08.017)
- Hoicka, E. et al., 2022. The Early Social Cognition Inventory (ESCI): an examination of its psychometric properties from birth to 47 months. Behavior Research Methods 54 , pp.1200-1226. (10.3758/s13428-021-01628-z)
- Gattis, M. , Winstanley, A. and Bristow, F. 2022. Parenting beliefs about attunement and structure are related to observed parenting behaviours. Cogent Psychology 9 (1) 2082675. (10.1080/23311908.2022.2082675)
- Ionio, C. et al., 2022. Monochorionic twins and the early mother-infant relationship: an exploratory observational study of mother-infant interaction in the post-partum period. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (5) 2821. (10.3390/ijerph19052821)
2021
- Kucirkova, N. et al., 2021. An empirical investigation of parent-child shared reading of digital personalized books. International Journal of Educational Research 105 101710. (10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101710)
2020
- Gattis, M. et al. 2020. Foundations of attention sharing: orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development 61 101466. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101466)
2019
- Gerson, S. et al. 2019. Infants attend longer to controlling versus supportive directive speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 187 104654. (10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.007)
2018
- Cameron-Faulkner, T. , Melville, J. and Gattis, M. 2018. Responding to nature: Natural environments improve parent-child communication. Journal of Environmental Psychology 59 , pp.9-15. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.08.008)
2017
- Cameron-Faulkner, T. et al., 2017. Plant yourself where language blooms: Direct experience of nature changes how parents and children talk about nature. Children Youth and Environments 27 (2), pp.110-124. (10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.2.0110)
2015
- Hilbrink, E. E. , Gattis, M. and Levinson, S. C. 2015. Early developmental changes in the timing of turn-taking: a longitudinal study of mother-infant interaction. Frontiers in Psychology 6 1492. (10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01492)
2014
- Winstanley, A. et al., 2014. Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the first five months following preterm and term deliveries. Infant Behavior and Development 37 (4), pp.760-771. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.09.005)
2013
- Evans, L. et al., 2013. The dimensional arrow: agreement in directional mapping of dimensions among Mandarin Chinese- and English-speakers. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66 (9), pp.1729-1738. (10.1080/17470218.2013.763832)
- Hilbrink, E. et al. 2013. Selective and faithful imitation at 12 and 15 months. Developmental Science 16 (6), pp.828-840. (10.1111/desc.12070)
- Over, H. et al. 2013. Children selectively trust individuals who have imitated them. Social Development 22 (2), pp.215-224. (10.1111/sode.12020)
- Sakkalou, E. et al. 2013. Infants show stability of goal-directed imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 114 (1), pp.1-9. (10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.005)
- Scott, K. et al. 2013. Infant contributions to joint attention predict vocabulary development. Presented at: 35th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyProceedings of the 35th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Preceedings of the Cognitive Science Society , pp.3384-3389.
- Winstanley, A. and Gattis, M. L. 2013. The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy. Infant Behavior and Development 36 (4), pp.762-775. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.08.004)
2012
- Ellis-Davies, K. et al. 2012. CUE: The continuous unified electronic diary method. Behaviour Research Methods 44 (4), pp.1063-1078. (10.3758/s13428-012-0205-1)
- Hoicka, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Acoustic differences between humorous and sincere communicative intentions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 30 (4), pp.531-549. (10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02062.x)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Attention engagement in early infancy. Infant Behavior and Development 35 (4), pp.635-644. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.06.004)
- Sakkalou, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Infants infer intentions from prosody. Cognitive Development 27 (1), pp.1-16. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.08.003)
2010
- Over, H. and Gattis, M. L. 2010. Verbal imitation is based on intention understanding. Cognitive Development 25 (1), pp.46-55. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.06.004)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2010. The control of social attention from 1 to 4 months. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 28 (4), pp.891-908. (10.1348/026151010X487014)
2008
- Gattis, M. L. 2008. Diagrams are visual analogies. International Journal of Psychology 43 (3-4), pp.169-169.
- Hoicka, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Do the wrong thing: How toddlers tell a joke from a mistake. Cognitive Development 23 (1), pp.180-190. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.06.001)
- Hoicka, E. , Jutsum, S. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Humor, abstraction, and disbelief. Cognitive Science 32 (6), pp.985-1002. (10.1080/03640210801981841)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Reducing the mapping between perception and action facilitates imitation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 26 (1), pp.133-144. (10.1348/026151007x224442)
2005
- Want, S. C. and Gattis, M. L. 2005. Are “late-signing” deaf children “mindblind”? Understanding goal directedness in imitation. Cognitive Development 20 (2), pp.159-172. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.12.003)
- Gattis, M. L. 2005. Inferencing from spatial information. Spatial Cognition & Computation 5 (2-3), pp.119-137. (10.1080/13875868.2005.9683800)
2004
- Gattis, M. L. 2004. Mapping relational structure in spatial reasoning. Cognitive Science 28 (4), pp.589-610. (10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.02.001)
- Wohlschläger, A. , Gattis, M. L. and Bekkering, H. 2004. Action generation and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle. In: Frith, C. D. and Wolpert, D. eds. The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.131-158.
2003
- Wohlschlager, A. , Gattis, M. L. and Bekkering, H. 2003. Action generation and action perception in imitation: An instantiation of the ideomotor principle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 358 (1431), pp.501-515. (10.1098/rstb.2002.1257)
- Gattis, M. L. 2003. How similarity shapes diagrams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2685 , pp.249-262. (10.1007/3-540-45004-1_15)
2002
- Gattis, M. L. 2002. Structure mapping in spatial reasoning. Cognitive Development 17 (2), pp.1157-1183. (10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00095-3)
- Gattis, M. L. 2002. Imitation is mediated by many goals, not just one [Letter]. Developmental Science 5 (1), pp.27-29. (10.1111/1467-7687.00201)
- Gattis, M. L. , Bekkering, H. and Wohlschläger, A. 2002. Goal-directed imitation. In: Meltzoff, A. N. and Prinz, W. eds. The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases. Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development Vol. 6.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.183-205. (10.1017/CBO9780511489969.011)
2001
- Gattis, M. L. ed. 2001. Spatial schemas and abstract thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (10.7551/mitpress/6392.001.0001)
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Mapping conceptual and spatial schemas. In: Gattis, M. L. ed. Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.223-245.
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Space as a basis for abstract thought. In: Gattis, M. L. ed. Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.1-12.
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Space as a basis for reasoning. In: Gero, J. S. , Tversky, B. and Purcell, T. eds. Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design II. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney. , pp.15-24.
2000
- Bekkering, H. , Wohlschlager, A. and Gattis, M. L. 2000. Imitation of gestures in children is goal-directed. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 53 (1), pp.153-164. (10.1080/027249800390718)
- Gattis, M. L. and Dupeyrat, C. 2000. Spatial strategies in reasoning. In: Schaeken, W. et al., Deductive Reasoning and Strategies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. , pp.153-176.
1998
- Gattis, M. 1998. Mapping relational structure in visual reasoning. Presented at: Mind III: Spatial Cognition - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland Dublin, Ireland 17-19 August 1998.
- Gattis, M. L. 1998. Mapping conceptual and spatial schemas. Presented at: Advances in Analogy Research Sofia, Bulgaria July 1998. Published in: Holyoak, K. , Gentner, D. and Kokinov, B. eds. Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences. NBU Series in Cognitive Sciences Sofia: New Bulgarian University. , pp.210-220.
- Gattis, M. L. , Bekkering, H. and Wohlschläger, A. 1998. When actions are carved at the joints [Letter]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (5), pp.691-692. (10.1017/S0140525X98301740)
- Schnall, S. and Gattis, M. L. 1998. Transitive inference by visual reasoning. Presented at: Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Madison, WI, USA 1-4 August 1998. Published in: Gernsbacher, M. A. and Derry, S. J. eds. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. , pp.929-934.
1996
- Bekkering, H. , Wohlschläger, A. and Gattis, M. L. 1996. Motor imitation: What is imitated?. Corpus, Psyche et Societas 3 (2), pp.68-74.
- Gattis, M. L. and Holyoak, K. J. 1996. Mapping conceptual to spatial relations in visual reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 22 (1), pp.231-239. (10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.231)
1995
- Gelman, R. and Gattis, M. L. 1995. Trends and developments in educational psychology in the United States. In: Recent trends and developments in educational psychology: Chinese and American perspectives. Educational studies and documents Vol. 61.Paris: UNESCO. , pp.23-52.
- Holyoak, K. J. and Gattis, M. L. 1995. Review of Children's understanding: The development of mental models by G. S. Halford [Book Review]. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 41 , pp.402-407.
1994
- Holyoak, K. J. and Gattis, M. L. 1994. Implicit assumptions about implicit learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (3), pp.406-407. (10.1017/S0140525X00035159)
- Richardson-Klavehn, A. et al., 1994. Intention and awareness in perceptual identification priming. Memory & Cognition 22 (3), pp.293-312. (10.3758/BF03200858)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Wohlschläger, A. , Gattis, M. L. and Bekkering, H. 2004. Action generation and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle. In: Frith, C. D. and Wolpert, D. eds. The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.131-158.
- Gattis, M. L. , Bekkering, H. and Wohlschläger, A. 2002. Goal-directed imitation. In: Meltzoff, A. N. and Prinz, W. eds. The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases. Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development Vol. 6.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.183-205. (10.1017/CBO9780511489969.011)
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Mapping conceptual and spatial schemas. In: Gattis, M. L. ed. Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.223-245.
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Space as a basis for abstract thought. In: Gattis, M. L. ed. Spatial Schemas and Abstract Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.1-12.
- Gattis, M. L. 2001. Space as a basis for reasoning. In: Gero, J. S. , Tversky, B. and Purcell, T. eds. Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design II. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney. , pp.15-24.
- Gattis, M. L. and Dupeyrat, C. 2000. Spatial strategies in reasoning. In: Schaeken, W. et al., Deductive Reasoning and Strategies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. , pp.153-176.
- Gelman, R. and Gattis, M. L. 1995. Trends and developments in educational psychology in the United States. In: Recent trends and developments in educational psychology: Chinese and American perspectives. Educational studies and documents Vol. 61.Paris: UNESCO. , pp.23-52.
Cynadleddau
- Scott, K. et al. 2013. Infant contributions to joint attention predict vocabulary development. Presented at: 35th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyProceedings of the 35th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Preceedings of the Cognitive Science Society , pp.3384-3389.
- Gattis, M. 1998. Mapping relational structure in visual reasoning. Presented at: Mind III: Spatial Cognition - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland Dublin, Ireland 17-19 August 1998.
- Gattis, M. L. 1998. Mapping conceptual and spatial schemas. Presented at: Advances in Analogy Research Sofia, Bulgaria July 1998. Published in: Holyoak, K. , Gentner, D. and Kokinov, B. eds. Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences. NBU Series in Cognitive Sciences Sofia: New Bulgarian University. , pp.210-220.
- Schnall, S. and Gattis, M. L. 1998. Transitive inference by visual reasoning. Presented at: Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Madison, WI, USA 1-4 August 1998. Published in: Gernsbacher, M. A. and Derry, S. J. eds. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. , pp.929-934.
Erthyglau
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. ‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning. British Educational Research Journal 52 (3), pp.2257-2280. (10.1002/berj.70103)
- Parkin, N. et al. 2026. Development and validation of the School Contexts of Outdoor Learning (SCOOL) scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology 112 103034. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103034)
- Junker, M. et al. 2026. Pathways to nature connection? A photo-elicitation exploration on how children engage with a nature connection programme. Environmental Education Research 32 (6), pp.1697-1725. (10.1080/13504622.2025.2600603)
- Godwin, E. et al., 2025. Making outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a case study. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning (10.1080/14729679.2025.2601844)
- Mitev, K. et al., 2025. Shifting horizons: Significant life events and pro-environmental behaviour change in early adulthood. PLOS Climate 4 (10) e0000709. (10.1371/journal.pclm.0000709)
- Gattis, M. et al. 2024. Knowledge of development during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood: psychometric properties of the domains of development instrument. International Journal of Behavioral Development 48 (5), pp.474-482. (10.1177/01650254241265586)
- Henderson, L. et al., 2024. Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students. Journal of Environmental Psychology 96 102343. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102343)
- Perra, O. et al., 2024. Attention control in preterm and term 5-month-old infants: Cross-task stability increases with gestational age. Infancy 29 (3), pp.437-458. (10.1111/infa.12574)
- Truong, Q. C. et al., 2024. Applying Rasch methodology to examine and enhance precision of the baby care questionnaire. Journal of Child and Family Studies 33 , pp.166-178. (10.1007/s10826-023-02772-0)
- Mascheroni, E. et al., 2022. The role of experience in parenting beliefs of British and Italian women during pregnancy. Infant Mental Health Journal 43 (6), pp.835-848. (10.1002/imhj.22014)
- Ionio, C. et al., 2022. Caring for twins during infancy: A systematic review of the literature on sleeping and feeding practices amongst parents of twins. Journal of Neonatal Nursing 28 (5), pp.305-311. (10.1016/j.jnn.2021.08.017)
- Hoicka, E. et al., 2022. The Early Social Cognition Inventory (ESCI): an examination of its psychometric properties from birth to 47 months. Behavior Research Methods 54 , pp.1200-1226. (10.3758/s13428-021-01628-z)
- Gattis, M. , Winstanley, A. and Bristow, F. 2022. Parenting beliefs about attunement and structure are related to observed parenting behaviours. Cogent Psychology 9 (1) 2082675. (10.1080/23311908.2022.2082675)
- Ionio, C. et al., 2022. Monochorionic twins and the early mother-infant relationship: an exploratory observational study of mother-infant interaction in the post-partum period. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (5) 2821. (10.3390/ijerph19052821)
- Kucirkova, N. et al., 2021. An empirical investigation of parent-child shared reading of digital personalized books. International Journal of Educational Research 105 101710. (10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101710)
- Gattis, M. et al. 2020. Foundations of attention sharing: orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development 61 101466. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101466)
- Gerson, S. et al. 2019. Infants attend longer to controlling versus supportive directive speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 187 104654. (10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.007)
- Cameron-Faulkner, T. , Melville, J. and Gattis, M. 2018. Responding to nature: Natural environments improve parent-child communication. Journal of Environmental Psychology 59 , pp.9-15. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.08.008)
- Cameron-Faulkner, T. et al., 2017. Plant yourself where language blooms: Direct experience of nature changes how parents and children talk about nature. Children Youth and Environments 27 (2), pp.110-124. (10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.2.0110)
- Hilbrink, E. E. , Gattis, M. and Levinson, S. C. 2015. Early developmental changes in the timing of turn-taking: a longitudinal study of mother-infant interaction. Frontiers in Psychology 6 1492. (10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01492)
- Winstanley, A. et al., 2014. Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the first five months following preterm and term deliveries. Infant Behavior and Development 37 (4), pp.760-771. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.09.005)
- Evans, L. et al., 2013. The dimensional arrow: agreement in directional mapping of dimensions among Mandarin Chinese- and English-speakers. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66 (9), pp.1729-1738. (10.1080/17470218.2013.763832)
- Hilbrink, E. et al. 2013. Selective and faithful imitation at 12 and 15 months. Developmental Science 16 (6), pp.828-840. (10.1111/desc.12070)
- Over, H. et al. 2013. Children selectively trust individuals who have imitated them. Social Development 22 (2), pp.215-224. (10.1111/sode.12020)
- Sakkalou, E. et al. 2013. Infants show stability of goal-directed imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 114 (1), pp.1-9. (10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.005)
- Winstanley, A. and Gattis, M. L. 2013. The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy. Infant Behavior and Development 36 (4), pp.762-775. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.08.004)
- Ellis-Davies, K. et al. 2012. CUE: The continuous unified electronic diary method. Behaviour Research Methods 44 (4), pp.1063-1078. (10.3758/s13428-012-0205-1)
- Hoicka, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Acoustic differences between humorous and sincere communicative intentions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 30 (4), pp.531-549. (10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02062.x)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Attention engagement in early infancy. Infant Behavior and Development 35 (4), pp.635-644. (10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.06.004)
- Sakkalou, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2012. Infants infer intentions from prosody. Cognitive Development 27 (1), pp.1-16. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2011.08.003)
- Over, H. and Gattis, M. L. 2010. Verbal imitation is based on intention understanding. Cognitive Development 25 (1), pp.46-55. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.06.004)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2010. The control of social attention from 1 to 4 months. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 28 (4), pp.891-908. (10.1348/026151010X487014)
- Gattis, M. L. 2008. Diagrams are visual analogies. International Journal of Psychology 43 (3-4), pp.169-169.
- Hoicka, E. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Do the wrong thing: How toddlers tell a joke from a mistake. Cognitive Development 23 (1), pp.180-190. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.06.001)
- Hoicka, E. , Jutsum, S. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Humor, abstraction, and disbelief. Cognitive Science 32 (6), pp.985-1002. (10.1080/03640210801981841)
- Perra, O. and Gattis, M. L. 2008. Reducing the mapping between perception and action facilitates imitation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 26 (1), pp.133-144. (10.1348/026151007x224442)
- Want, S. C. and Gattis, M. L. 2005. Are “late-signing” deaf children “mindblind”? Understanding goal directedness in imitation. Cognitive Development 20 (2), pp.159-172. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.12.003)
- Gattis, M. L. 2005. Inferencing from spatial information. Spatial Cognition & Computation 5 (2-3), pp.119-137. (10.1080/13875868.2005.9683800)
- Gattis, M. L. 2004. Mapping relational structure in spatial reasoning. Cognitive Science 28 (4), pp.589-610. (10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.02.001)
- Wohlschlager, A. , Gattis, M. L. and Bekkering, H. 2003. Action generation and action perception in imitation: An instantiation of the ideomotor principle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B - Biological Sciences 358 (1431), pp.501-515. (10.1098/rstb.2002.1257)
- Gattis, M. L. 2003. How similarity shapes diagrams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2685 , pp.249-262. (10.1007/3-540-45004-1_15)
- Gattis, M. L. 2002. Structure mapping in spatial reasoning. Cognitive Development 17 (2), pp.1157-1183. (10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00095-3)
- Gattis, M. L. 2002. Imitation is mediated by many goals, not just one [Letter]. Developmental Science 5 (1), pp.27-29. (10.1111/1467-7687.00201)
- Bekkering, H. , Wohlschlager, A. and Gattis, M. L. 2000. Imitation of gestures in children is goal-directed. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A: Human Experimental Psychology 53 (1), pp.153-164. (10.1080/027249800390718)
- Gattis, M. L. , Bekkering, H. and Wohlschläger, A. 1998. When actions are carved at the joints [Letter]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (5), pp.691-692. (10.1017/S0140525X98301740)
- Bekkering, H. , Wohlschläger, A. and Gattis, M. L. 1996. Motor imitation: What is imitated?. Corpus, Psyche et Societas 3 (2), pp.68-74.
- Gattis, M. L. and Holyoak, K. J. 1996. Mapping conceptual to spatial relations in visual reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 22 (1), pp.231-239. (10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.231)
- Holyoak, K. J. and Gattis, M. L. 1995. Review of Children's understanding: The development of mental models by G. S. Halford [Book Review]. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 41 , pp.402-407.
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Ymchwil
Gwybyddiaeth a Chyfathrebu
Rydym yn aml yn meddwl am wybyddiaeth a chyfathrebu fel galluoedd sy'n bodoli o fewn unigolyn, ond mae pob person yn cael ei siapio gan y bobl a'r amgylcheddau o'u cwmpas, ac felly hefyd gwybyddiaeth a chyfathrebu. Mae rhai o'r dylanwadau hynny dros dro - er enghraifft, heb hyd yn oed feddwl amdano, rydych chi'n newid amseru a prosody eich lleferydd wrth siarad â babi yn erbyn cyfoedion - ond mae rhai yn fwy gwydn. Mae dylanwadau cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol yn fwy tebygol o gael effeithiau hirdymor yn ystod plentyndod a phlentyndod cynnar, ac ar ben hynny, mae'r effeithiau hynny'n dylanwadu ar agweddau eraill ar ddatblygiad, proses a elwir yn rhaeadrau datblygiadol.
Mae fy ymchwil yn cynnwys pobl o bob oedran, gan gynnwys babanod, plant ac oedolion, ac yn ymchwilio i ryngweithiadau person-amgylchedd a rhaeadrau datblygiadol cysylltiedig. Rwy'n astudio sut mae rhyngweithio â phobl eraill ac amgylcheddau a rennir yn dylanwadu ar wybyddiaeth a chyfathrebu ac effeithiau tymor hwy y dylanwadau hynny.
Pobl a Natur
Mae sawl un o'n prosiectau yn edrych ar y berthynas rhwng pobl a natur.
Dylai natur fod i bawb ond nid yw gormod o blant yn cael y cyfle i ddarganfod natur. Mae Generation Wild yn rhaglen a ddatblygwyd gan WWT i gysylltu plant sy'n byw mewn cymunedau dan anfantais economaidd â natur. Mae Prifysgol Caerdydd yn gweithio gyda WWT i'w helpu i werthuso Generation Wild.
Roedd Cam 1 ein cydweithrediad â WWT yn cynnwys yr Athro Kersty Hobson a Wouter Poortinga, y myfyrwyr PhD Nicola Parkin a Magie Junker, y myfyrwyr MSc Lydia Swinn ac Antonia Wilkinson a'r myfyrwyr BSc Ruby Garrison, Ella Godwin, Lorna Jarvis, Fatiha Nur Pratiwi a Karolina Wysocka. Ariannwyd Cam 1 gan ddyfarniadau ysgoloriaeth gan yr Ysgol Seicoleg a gwobr ysgoloriaeth gydweithredol gan y Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol. Darparodd WWT gymorth ariannol ychwanegol hefyd. Gweler fy rhestr gyhoeddiadau am allbynnau a gwefan WWT am ffilm animeiddiedig sy'n cynnwys ein gwaith ar Generation Wild.
Mae Cam 2 ein cydweithrediad â WWT yn Bartneriaeth Trosglwyddo Gwybodaeth a ariennir gan UKRI. Bethany Harries yw'r Cydymaith Trosglwyddo Gwybodaeth, lle ei theitl yw Rheolwr Datblygu Dysgu seiliedig ar Natur. Ar y cyd â'r Athro Luigi de Luca a staff WWT rydym yn datblygu dull arloesol, wedi'i ymgorffori at werthuso i helpu WWT i nodi manteision y rhaglen Generation Wild ac ennyn diddordeb cynulleidfaoedd y dyfodol. Mae gennym hefyd interniaeth wedi'i ariannu ar gael ar gyfer haf 2026.
Mae Making Space for Nature yn bartneriaeth academaidd a menter sy'n canolbwyntio ar y nod o weithio gyda chymunedau lleol i gyd-gynhyrchu cynlluniau ar gyfer creu lle i natur. Mae'r prosiect hwn yn gydweithrediad â Dr Matluba Khan , yr Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio, a chyda sawl person a sefydliad arall y tu allan i'r brifysgol. Gallwch ddysgu mwy am Making Space for Nature a lawrlwytho'r adroddiad terfynol ar gyfer ein gwaith a ariennir gan Gronfa Datblygu Rhanbarthol Ewrop yma.
Mae Moments of Change for pro-environmental behaviour shifts (MOCHA) yn Grant Cydgrynhoi a ariennir gan y Cyngor Ymchwil Ewropeaidd. Cydweithiais â'r Athro Lorraine Whitmarsh, sy'n arwain prosiect MOCHA, Nick Nash, a Kaloyan Mitev, y canolbwyntiodd ei PhD ar y glasoed hwyr fel eiliad o newid ar gyfer ymddygiad pro-amgylcheddol.
Rwyf hefyd wedi cydweithio â'r Athro Thea Cameron-Faulkner ar sut mae amgylcheddau naturiol yn dylanwadu ar gyfathrebu rhwng rhieni a phlant. Gallwch ddysgu mwy am ein canfyddiadau yma. Mae'r prosiect Making Space for Nature a ddisgrifir uchod yn rhoi cyfle gwerthfawr i ailadrodd ac ymestyn ein gwaith ar sut mae amgylcheddau naturiol yn dylanwadu ar gyfathrebu.
Plant a Rhieni
Rhieni yw un o'r dylanwadau pwysicaf ar iechyd a datblygiad plant. Mae nifer o'n prosiectau yn gwerthuso sut mae rhieni yn meddwl am blant, a elwir yn wybyddiaeth rhianta, a sut mae plant a rhieni yn perthynu, neu i ddefnyddio term mwy technegol, sut maen nhw'n rhyngweithio.
Ychydig iawn o astudiaethau sydd wedi archwilio'r credoau sydd gan rieni am sut i ofalu am babi, yn enwedig yn ystod y trawsnewidiad i fod yn rhiant a phlentyndod cynnar. Mae hyn yn fwlch pwysig oherwydd bod credoau rhianta yn debygol o ddylanwadu ar sut mae rhieni yn ymddwyn gyda'u plant, a thrwy hynny ddylanwadu ar ddatblygiad. Fe wnaethom ddatblygu'r Holiadur Gofal Babanod (BCQ) i fynd i'r afael â'r angen am offeryn dilys a dibynadwy i gefnogi ymchwil ar gredoau rhianta am ofal yn ystod y babanod. Mae'r gwaith hwn wedi cael ei gefnogi gan Wellcome Trust, y Sefydliadau Iechyd Cenedlaethol, Sefydliad Waterloo, a'r Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol. Os hoffech ddefnyddio'r BCQ yn eich ymchwil eich hun, anfonwch e-bost ataf am awdurdodiad a manylion ategol.
Cam pwysig yn ein gwaith gyda'r BCQ yw deall a yw'n offeryn dilys a dibynadwy mewn gwahanol wledydd a chyd-destunau diwylliannol. Mae hon yn dasg fawr ac rwy'n ddiolchgar i gael nifer o gydweithwyr egnïol ac arbenigol, gan gynnwys yr Athro Terry Au, Dr Carrie Barber, Dr Oleg Medvedev, a'r Athro Wendy Middlemiss, ochr yn ochr â llawer o rai eraill. Mae ein gwaith diweddaraf yn cael ei ariannu gan gronfa sbarduno cydweithredol Prifysgol Caerdydd a Phrifysgol Waikato i gefnogi'r Bartneriaeth Strategol Ryngwladol rhwng y ddwy brifysgol.
Rydym hefyd yn defnyddio'r BCQ mewn astudiaethau o rianta a datblygiad plant ar ôl genedigaeth cynamserol. Mae genedigaeth cynamserol yn gyffredin iawn ac yn dylanwadu ar risgiau uniongyrchol yn ogystal â chanlyniadau hirdymor i blant. Mae genedigaeth cynamserol hefyd yn effeithio ar rieni a'u rhyngweithio â phlant. Mae ein hymchwil yn edrych ar y llwybrau posibl rhwng genedigaeth cynamserol a rhyngweithio rhiant-plentyn. Mae'r gwaith hwn wedi cael ei gefnogi gan Wellcome Trust, y Sefydliadau Iechyd Cenedlaethol, a Sefydliad Waterloo. Ymhlith y partneriaid cydweithredol mae Dr Marc Bornstein a Dr Diane Putnick.
Rwyf hefyd yn cydweithio â Dr Hana D'Souza i astudio'r prosesau sy'n cefnogi cyfathrebu a gwybyddiaeth yn ystod rhyngweithio rhiant-plentyn trwy ddefnyddio offer ymchwil arloesol sy'n ein galluogi i astudio ymddygiad naturiolaidd mewn cyd-destunau bob dydd. Ynghyd â Hana rwy'n cyd-oruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD Kate me, Sofia Hryniv, Qin Liu, a Charlotte Bochetta.
Addysgu
Rwy'n arwain addysgu israddedig ac ôl-raddedig ar ddylunio a dulliau ymchwil, gan gynnwys cyflwyniad i ddylunio ymchwil ar gyfer myfyrwyr Blwyddyn 1 a myfyrwyr MSc a modiwl blwyddyn olaf ar ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg ddatblygiadol. Mae'r pynciau'n cynnwys athroniaeth gwyddoniaeth, dulliau arsylwi ac arolygu, dulliau lled-arbrofol a dulliau cymysg eraill, a dyluniadau trawsdoriadol a hydredol, yn ogystal â materion mwy datblygedig fel dulliau dyddiadur ac offer ymchwil o bell eraill, a datblygu a gwerthuso graddfa.
Rwy'n goruchwylio prosiectau ymchwil israddedig ac ôl-raddedig ac interniaethau ymchwil ar wybyddiaeth a datblygiad. Rwyf hefyd yn diwtor personol i fyfyrwyr ar ein gradd israddedig.
Bywgraffiad
Undergraduate education
- B.A. (1985): Gordon College, Massachusetts; Psychology (Magna cum Laude; Honours Scholar Fellowship).
Postgraduate education
Ph.D. (1995): supported by NSF; supervised by Professor Keith Holyoak; University of California, Los Angeles; Psychology; dissertation title: 'From Implicit Learning of Visual Patterns to Explicit Knowledge of a Dynamic System'.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2005; Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 2005-2006.
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Cymdeithas Gwyddor Gwybyddol
Recordiadau Sain Dydd o Amgylcheddau Ieithyddol Plant (DARCLE®)
International Society for Infant Studies
Cymdeithas Ryngwladol ar gyfer Astudio Datblygiad Ymddygiad
Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- October 2014: promoted to Professor, Cardiff University, UK
- October 2011: Reader, Cardiff University, UK
- 2007-2011: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
- 2002-2007: Lecturer, Cardiff University
- 1998-2002: Lecturer, Sheffield University
- 1995-1998: Max Planck Institute Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany.
Reviewer
- Reviewer for Academic Presses: IOS Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press
- Reviewer for journals: Applied Cognitive Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Cognition, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Thinking and Reasoning.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
Credoau ac ymddygiadau rhianta, sgwrs yng Ngweithdy Canolfan y Gwyddorau Datblygiadol Dynol Prifysgol Caerdydd ar Berthynas Babanod sy'n Rhianta, Gorffennaf 2024
Perthynas Rhieni Babanod yn dilyn Genedigaeth Cyn-Tymor, Poster yng Gweithdy Canolfan y Gwyddorau Datblygiadol Dynol Prifysgol Caerdydd ar Berthynas Rhieni Babanod, Gorffennaf 2024
Dosbarthiad Sylw i Bobl yn erbyn Gwrthrychau: Cydgyfeirio Tystiolaeth o Samplau Amrywiol, Symposiwm yng Nghynhadledd Ryngwladol ar Astudiaethau Babanod, Gorffennaf 2024
Mae credoau rhianta am atyniant yn gysylltiedig ag ymddygiadau rhianta ymatebol, poster yng Nghynhadledd Ryngwladol ar Astudiaethau Babanod, Gorffennaf 2024 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13153.52321
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
- Grant reviewing: ESRC, European Commission, National Science Foundation (USA)
- Editorial Board, Psychological Science
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Rwy'n goruchwylio ymchwil ôl-raddedig ar wybyddiaeth a datblygiad, gan gynnwys ymchwil gyda babanod, plant ac oedolion. Mae gen i ddiddordeb arbennig mewn troi mewn cyfathrebu dynol ac mewn rhyngweithio rhwng diwylliant a datblygiad dynol .
Mae gen i ddata archifol o ddwy astudiaeth hydredol o ddatblygiad gwybyddol a chyfathrebu yn ystod plentyndod, ac rwy'n croesawu ceisiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr sydd â diddordeb mewn gweithio gyda data archifol i ymchwilio i gwestiynau ymchwil am ddatblygiad gwybyddiaeth a chyfathrebu yn ystod plentyndod a phlentyndod cynnar.
Rwyf hefyd yn croesawu ceisiadau gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr sydd â diddordeb mewn cyfathrebu annisgwyl ac ymatebol, boed hynny mewn babanod, plant, neu oedolion. Rwy'n goruchwylio astudiaethau arbrofol ac arsylwadol o gymryd tro, er enghraifft mewn rhyngweithiadau rhiant-plentyn. Mae gen i ddiddordeb arbennig mewn sut mae amgylcheddau naturiol yn dylanwadu ar dro .
Rwyf hefyd yn goruchwylio ymchwil traws-genedlaethol ar gredoau rhianta am ofalu am fabanod.
Os oes gennych ddiddordeb mewn gwneud cais am PhD neu os hoffech ragor o wybodaeth am fy ngoruchwyliaeth ôl-raddedig, cysylltwch â mi yn uniongyrchol.
Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol
Magie Junker
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Themâu ymchwil
Arbenigeddau
- Gwybyddiaeth
- Iechyd babanod a phlant
- Datblygiad plant a'r glasoed
- Rhianta
- Seicoleg Amgylcheddol
