Carmel Houston‐price
Biographic Data
| ID | 1463481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmel Houston‐price |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmel |
| FAMILY NAME | Houston‐price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6368-142X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Executive functions are modulated by the context of dual language use
Studies investigating the role of dual language use in modulating executive functions have reported mixed results, with some studies reporting benefits in older adults. These studies typically focus on bilingual settings, while the role of dual language use in diglossic settings is rarely investigated. In diglossia, the two language varieties are separated by context, making it an ideal test case for the effects on cognition of Single Language Co…
Online Processing Shows Advantages of Bimodal Listening‐While‐Reading for Vocabulary Learning
Children can learn words incidentally from stories. This kind of learning is enhanced when stories are presented both aurally and in written format, compared to just a written presentation. However, we do not know why this bimodal presentation is beneficial. This study explores two possible explanations: whether the bimodal advantage manifests online during story exposure, or later, at word retrieval. We collected eye‐movement data from 34 8‐to 9…
The effects of using two varieties of one language on cognition
Although the question of whether and how bilingualism affects executive functions has been extensively debated, less attention has been paid to the cognitive abilities of speakers of different varieties of the same language, in linguistic situations such as bidialectalism and diglossia. Similarly to the bilingual situation, in bidialectalism and diglossia speakers have two language varieties that are active at the same time. However, these situat…
See and Eat! The impact of repeated exposure to vegetable ebooks on young children's vegetable acceptance
Vegetable consumption in young children in the UK is well below the recommended five child-sized portions per day. Effective and practical strategies are therefore needed to encourage vegetable consumption in young children. In this exploratory study, we examine the effects of visual familiarization to foods via See & Eat ebooks, which show vegetables on their journey from 'field to fork'. As part of a larger study, in which 242 British families …
VeggieSense
VeggieSense
Is There an Effect of Diglossia on Executive Functions? An Investigation among Adult Diglossic Speakers of Arabic
Recent studies investigating whether bilingualism has effects on cognitive abilities beyond language have produced mixed results, with evidence from young adults typically showing no effects. These inconclusive patterns have been attributed to many uncontrolled factors, including linguistic similarity and the conversational contexts the bilinguals find themselves in, including the opportunities they get to switch between their languages. In this …
Can vegetable e-books influence a child’s acceptance of vegetables? Preliminary findings from the See & Eat study
Non-taste multi-sensory activities and their impact on children’s willingness to taste and consumption of vegetables
Healthy eating interventions delivered in the family home
Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into preschoolers’ diets
The effect of repeated taste exposure of bitter tasting vegetable in children varying in bitter taste sensitivity
Development of a measure to assess parents’ feeding goals
Healthy happy family eating
Exposure to foods' non-taste sensory properties. A nursery intervention to increase children's willingness to try fruit and vegetables
Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's consumption of healthy foods. This study provides the first empirical exploration of the effectiveness of a non-taste sensory activity program in a nursery school setting. Ninety-two children aged between 12 and 36 months were allocated either to an intervention group…
Picture books about food increase toddlers’ liking and consumption of disliked vegetables
Increasing food familiarity without the tears. A role for visual exposure
How infants’ visual preferences for fruits and vegetables are influenced through picture book exposure
Picture-book exposure increases children's liking of disliked vegetables
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17‐month‐old infants, but not 14‐ or 16‐month‐olds, use a strategy known as mutual exclusivity (ME) to identify the meanings of new words. When 17‐month‐olds were presented with a novel word in an intermodal preferential looking task, they preferentially fixated a novel object over an object for which they already had a name. We explored whether the development of this word‐learning strategy is driven by children…
Visual exposure impacts on toddlers’ willingness to taste fruits and vegetables
A Longitudinal Study of Perceptual Grouping by Proximity, Luminance and Shape in Infants at Two, Four and Six Months
Grouping by luminance and shape similarity has previously been demonstrated in neonates and at 4 months, respectively. By contrast, grouping by proximity has hitherto not been investigated in infancy. This is also the first study to chart the developmental emergence of perceptual grouping longitudinally. Sixty-one infants were presented with a matrix of local stimuli grouped horizontally or vertically by luminance, shape or proximity at 2, 4, and…
Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task
Two experiments are described which explore the relationship between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabularies at 1 ; 6 (Experiment 1a) or 1 ; 3, 1 ; 6 and 1 ; 9 (Experiment 1b) and the comprehension infants demonstrated in a preferential looking task. The instrument used was the Oxford CDI, a British English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Words & Gestures). Infants were shown pairs of images of familiar objects, either both nam…
The Development of Perceptual Grouping in Infants with Williams Syndrome
Perceptual grouping by luminance similarity and by proximity was investigated in infants with Williams syndrome (WS) aged between 6 and 36 months (visit 1, N=29). WS infants who were still under 36 months old, 8 months later, repeated the testing procedure (visit 2, N=15). Performance was compared to typically developing (TD) infants aged from 2 to 20 months (N=63). Consistent with the literature, TD participants showed grouping by luminance at t…
‘Word-learning wizardry’ at 1;6
This article explores whether infants are able to learn words as rapidly as has been reported for preschoolers. Sixty-four infants aged 1;6 were taught labels for either two moving images or two still images. Each image–label pair was presented three times, after which comprehension was assessed using an adaptation of the intermodal preferential looking paradigm. Three repetitions of each label were found to be sufficient for learning to occur, f…
Visual exposure impacts on toddlers’ willingness to taste fruits and vegetables
Increasing food familiarity without the tears. A role for visual exposure
Exposure to foods' non-taste sensory properties. A nursery intervention to increase children's willingness to try fruit and vegetables
Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's consumption of healthy foods. This study provides the first empirical exploration of the effectiveness of a non-taste sensory activity program in a nursery school setting. Ninety-two children aged between 12 and 36 months were allocated either to an intervention group…
Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into preschoolers’ diets
VeggieSense
Is There an Effect of Diglossia on Executive Functions? An Investigation among Adult Diglossic Speakers of Arabic
Recent studies investigating whether bilingualism has effects on cognitive abilities beyond language have produced mixed results, with evidence from young adults typically showing no effects. These inconclusive patterns have been attributed to many uncontrolled factors, including linguistic similarity and the conversational contexts the bilinguals find themselves in, including the opportunities they get to switch between their languages. In this …
How infants’ visual preferences for fruits and vegetables are influenced through picture book exposure
‘Word-learning wizardry’ at 1;6
This article explores whether infants are able to learn words as rapidly as has been reported for preschoolers. Sixty-four infants aged 1;6 were taught labels for either two moving images or two still images. Each image–label pair was presented three times, after which comprehension was assessed using an adaptation of the intermodal preferential looking paradigm. Three repetitions of each label were found to be sufficient for learning to occur, f…
Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task
Two experiments are described which explore the relationship between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabularies at 1 ; 6 (Experiment 1a) or 1 ; 3, 1 ; 6 and 1 ; 9 (Experiment 1b) and the comprehension infants demonstrated in a preferential looking task. The instrument used was the Oxford CDI, a British English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Words & Gestures). Infants were shown pairs of images of familiar objects, either both nam…
The Development of Perceptual Grouping in Infants with Williams Syndrome
Perceptual grouping by luminance similarity and by proximity was investigated in infants with Williams syndrome (WS) aged between 6 and 36 months (visit 1, N=29). WS infants who were still under 36 months old, 8 months later, repeated the testing procedure (visit 2, N=15). Performance was compared to typically developing (TD) infants aged from 2 to 20 months (N=63). Consistent with the literature, TD participants showed grouping by luminance at t…
A Longitudinal Study of Perceptual Grouping by Proximity, Luminance and Shape in Infants at Two, Four and Six Months
Grouping by luminance and shape similarity has previously been demonstrated in neonates and at 4 months, respectively. By contrast, grouping by proximity has hitherto not been investigated in infancy. This is also the first study to chart the developmental emergence of perceptual grouping longitudinally. Sixty-one infants were presented with a matrix of local stimuli grouped horizontally or vertically by luminance, shape or proximity at 2, 4, and…
Visual exposure impacts on toddlers’ willingness to taste fruits and vegetables
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17‐month‐old infants, but not 14‐ or 16‐month‐olds, use a strategy known as mutual exclusivity (ME) to identify the meanings of new words. When 17‐month‐olds were presented with a novel word in an intermodal preferential looking task, they preferentially fixated a novel object over an object for which they already had a name. We explored whether the development of this word‐learning strategy is driven by children…
Increasing food familiarity without the tears. A role for visual exposure
How infants’ visual preferences for fruits and vegetables are influenced through picture book exposure
Picture-book exposure increases children's liking of disliked vegetables
Picture books about food increase toddlers’ liking and consumption of disliked vegetables
Exposure to foods' non-taste sensory properties. A nursery intervention to increase children's willingness to try fruit and vegetables
Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's consumption of healthy foods. This study provides the first empirical exploration of the effectiveness of a non-taste sensory activity program in a nursery school setting. Ninety-two children aged between 12 and 36 months were allocated either to an intervention group…
Healthy happy family eating
Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into preschoolers’ diets
The effect of repeated taste exposure of bitter tasting vegetable in children varying in bitter taste sensitivity
Development of a measure to assess parents’ feeding goals
Healthy eating interventions delivered in the family home
Can vegetable e-books influence a child’s acceptance of vegetables? Preliminary findings from the See & Eat study
Non-taste multi-sensory activities and their impact on children’s willingness to taste and consumption of vegetables
VeggieSense
VeggieSense
Is There an Effect of Diglossia on Executive Functions? An Investigation among Adult Diglossic Speakers of Arabic
Recent studies investigating whether bilingualism has effects on cognitive abilities beyond language have produced mixed results, with evidence from young adults typically showing no effects. These inconclusive patterns have been attributed to many uncontrolled factors, including linguistic similarity and the conversational contexts the bilinguals find themselves in, including the opportunities they get to switch between their languages. In this …
The effects of using two varieties of one language on cognition
Although the question of whether and how bilingualism affects executive functions has been extensively debated, less attention has been paid to the cognitive abilities of speakers of different varieties of the same language, in linguistic situations such as bidialectalism and diglossia. Similarly to the bilingual situation, in bidialectalism and diglossia speakers have two language varieties that are active at the same time. However, these situat…
See and Eat! The impact of repeated exposure to vegetable ebooks on young children's vegetable acceptance
Vegetable consumption in young children in the UK is well below the recommended five child-sized portions per day. Effective and practical strategies are therefore needed to encourage vegetable consumption in young children. In this exploratory study, we examine the effects of visual familiarization to foods via See & Eat ebooks, which show vegetables on their journey from 'field to fork'. As part of a larger study, in which 242 British families …
Executive functions are modulated by the context of dual language use
Studies investigating the role of dual language use in modulating executive functions have reported mixed results, with some studies reporting benefits in older adults. These studies typically focus on bilingual settings, while the role of dual language use in diglossic settings is rarely investigated. In diglossia, the two language varieties are separated by context, making it an ideal test case for the effects on cognition of Single Language Co…
Online Processing Shows Advantages of Bimodal Listening‐While‐Reading for Vocabulary Learning
Children can learn words incidentally from stories. This kind of learning is enhanced when stories are presented both aurally and in written format, compared to just a written presentation. However, we do not know why this bimodal presentation is beneficial. This study explores two possible explanations: whether the bimodal advantage manifests online during story exposure, or later, at word retrieval. We collected eye‐movement data from 34 8‐to 9…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Taste (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Food Science (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)