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Paul Vogt, Tilburg University - Modelling child language acquisition in interaction from corpora

Isabela Granic, Radboud University Nijmegen - Bridging developmental science and game design to video games that build emotional resilience

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Paul Vogt is an Associative Professor at the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He received an MSc in Cognitive Science and Engineering from the University of Groningen (Netherlands), and obtained a PhD at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He held post-doc positions at the Universiteit Maastricht, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on understanding the cultural, social and cognitive mechanisms that underly the evolution and acquisition of language and communication. Vogt is particularly interested in investigating how humans (and machines) can ground the meaning of linguistic utterances in the real world, and how they learn language from each other through social interactions. To study this, he has used a variety of techniques, ranging from agent-based modelling, child-robot interaction and psycholinguistic experiments to ethnographic research of children's language acquisition in different cultures.

Isabela Granic is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Radboud University Nijmegen. She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada. She studies parenting, peer and therapeutic relationship processes in order to better understand the social and emotional mechanisms that contribute to the development and maintenance of child and adolescent psychopathology and how to best intervene to change these processes. A large part of her program of research aims to explain the variability in evidence-based interventions by identifying the processes and mechanisms of change associated with successful intervention. Some of the questions prof Granic is pursuing include: (1) How do parent-child and peer interactions change as a function of successful intervention? (2) What sorts of therapeutic relationships are most predictive of successful outcomes? (3) How does successful treatment impact on the functioning of emotion-regulation centers in the brain? She also has a line of research that examines the mental health benefits of playing video games. Her program of research has been funded by national and international granting agencies including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Open Competitie MaGW (NWO) and Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her findings have been published in top-tiered psychology and developmental journals including Psychological Review, Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, and Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.