Marlena Larissa Mayer
PhD student
Developmental Psychology
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since 12/2019
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Research Associate / PhD student in Developmental Psychology, University of Hamburg
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| 11/2019 | M.Sc. in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology, thesis title: „Investigating the Impact of Bilingualism on Social Communicative Skills in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder“ |
| 2018-2019 |
Graduate studies in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology (M.Sc.) at the University of Edinburgh (UK)
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| 07/2017 | BA Hons in Linguistics, thesis title: „Trends in Auditory-Visual Synesthesia: An Investigation into the Synesthetic Perceptions of Non-Synesthetes“ |
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2014-2017
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Undergraduate studies in Linguistics (BA Hons) at Lancaster University (UK) |
Research Focus
How and when do babies learn about objects? Do they pay attention to different object features? Do they understand basic physical principles? How do they categorize different objects? What can pupillometry teach us about how babies process objects? These are some of the questions I seek to explore in my PhD research through a series of studies investigating object concepts in the first year of life. In doing so, we use eye tracking methods, specifically pupil dilation, to understand what’s going on in babies’ brains before they can tell us themselves.
Conference Proceedings
| 09/2023 |
EPSY Berlin, Symposium Talk (Co-Organizer): The Violation-of-Expectation Paradigm Revisited: Considerations for Pupillometric Approaches in the Context of Early Object Representation Poster: Absence makes the pupil grow larger: Infants‘ perceptions of missing objects in occlusion events |
| 08/2023 | LCICD Lancaster, Poster: Same Difference or Actual Difference? Object Permanence and Identity in 10- and 14-Month-Old Infants |
| 06/2023 | JPS (Jean Piaget Society) Madrid, Poster: Pupillometric Contributions to Deciphering Early Object Concepts: Object Permanence and Identity |
| 08/2022 | LCICD Lancaster, Poster: Out of sight, (not) out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old infants |
| 07/2022 | ICIS Ottawa, Poster: Object permanence revisited: A pupillometric approach to object representation inInfancy |
Publications
2025
Mayer,M. & Liszkowski, U. (2023). Out of sight, not out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old German infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2025 Jan, 249: 106060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106060
2023
Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann, J.-R., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890