Entwicklungspsychologie - Dr. Christian Kliesch

Christian Kliesch ist seit 2021 Mitarbeiter in der Entwicklungspsychologie (Frau Prof. Dr. Elsner) an der Universität Potsdam. Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen in den frühkindlichen sozialen und kommunikativen Fähigkeiten und Sprachevolution. In seiner Forschung arbeitet er mit Verhaltensdaten, Elektroenzephalographie, Eye-Tracking und Pupillengrößenmessungen.

Er hat 2019 an der Lancaster University zur Rolle von kommunikativen Signalen im frühkindlichen Handlungsverständnis promoviert. Vor seiner Promotion hat er Evolution of Language and Cognition an der University of Edinburgh (MSc) und Psychologie an der University of Glasgow (MA, Hons) studiert. Er hat als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Wortakrobaten Labor (Jr. Prof. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen) an der JGU Mainz, am Lancaster Babylab, dem MPI für Evolutionäre Anthropologie (Prof. Dr. Michael Tomasello, Leipzig) und dem MPI für Kognitions- und Verhaltenswissenschaften (Prof. Dr. Stefanie Hoehl, Leipzig) gearbeitet.

Publikationen

Kliesch, C. (2024). Extending cognitive development into the body and the environment. MEFISTO. Journal of Medicine, Philosophy, and History, 8(1).

Xie, S., Hoehl, S., Moeskops, M., Kayhan, E., Kliesch, C., Turtleton, B., Köster, M., & Cichy, R.M. (2022). Visual category representations in the infant brain. Current Biology, 32, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.016

Kliesch, C., Parise, E., Reid, V. M., and Hoehl, S. (2021). The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in eighteen-month-old children. Developmental Science,  25(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13198

Köster, M., Langeloh, M., Kliesch, C., Kanngiesser, P., & Hoehl, S. (2021). The value of subsequent memory paradigms in uncovering neural mechanisms of early social learning. NeuroImage, 117978, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117978

Köster, M., Langeloh, M., Kliesch, C., Kanngiesser, P., & Hoehl, S. (2020). Motor cortex activity during action observation predicts subsequent action imitation in human infants. NeuroImage, 116958. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116958

Roberts, S. G., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. J., Sinnemäki, K., ... Kliesch, C., et al., (2020). CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution. doi: 10.1093/jole/lzaa001

O’Grady, C., Kliesch, C., Smith, K., & Scott-Phillips, T. C. (2015). The ease, extent, and evolution of recursive mindreading, Evolution and Human Behavior 36(4), 313–324. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.01.004

Kliesch, C. (2012). Making sense of syntax—Innate or acquired? Contrasting Universal Grammar with other approaches to language acquisition. Journal of European Psychology Students, 3, 54–60. doi: 10.5334/jeps.au

Kongressbeiträge

Kliesch, C., Maffongelli, L., Neumann, M.-T., Friederici, A., Paulus, M., & Altvater-Mackensen, N. (2021), A novel task to measure children’s planning of sequential and dependent actions, Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, January 04–08, 2021, Budapest (HU)/Online

Kliesch, C., Hoehl, S., Reid, V.M. & Parise, E. (2019), Toddlers use communicative signals to segment actions [Paper], paEpsy, Universität Leipzig, Sept 09–12, 2019, Leipzig, (DE).

Köster, M., Langeloh, M., Kliesch, C., Kanngießer, P., & Höhl, S., (2019), Neuronal dynamics of infants’ understanding and learning from others’ actions [Symposium contribution], paEpsy, Universität Leipzig, Sept 09–12, 2019, Leipzig, (DE).

Kliesch, C., (2019), Parent-child interactions scaffold action segmentation in infancy and early childhood [Paper], Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language & Cognition, Aarhus University, May 22–24, 2019, Aarhus, (DK).

Köster, M., Langeloh, M., Kliesch, C., Kanngießer, P., & Höhl, S., (2019), Neuronal dynamics of infants’ understanding and learning from others’ actions [Poster], SRCD Biennial Meeting, March 21–23, 2019, Baltimore (USA)

Kliesch, C., Hoehl, S., Reid, V. M. & Parise, E., (2019), Ostensive signals contribute to the segmentation of actions in toddlers [Poster], Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, January 03–05, 2019, Budapest (HU)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S. & Parise, E., (2018), Communicative signals help toddlers segment actions [Poster], Potsdam Research Institute for Early Learning & Educational Action Conference, October 04–05, 2018, Potsdam (DE).

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Hoehl, S. & Parise, E. (2018), The role of communicative signals in segmenting actions [Poster], Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, September 04–08, 2018, Lancaster (UK).

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2018), Ostensive-referential communication modu- lates action interpretation at 9 months [Poster], International Congress of Infant Studies, June 30–July 3, 2018, Philadelphia (USA)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2017), Anticipation of familiar, unexpected and novel actions in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts in 7-month-old infants [Poster], Lan- caster Conference on Infant and Child Development, August 22–25, 2017, Lancaster (UK)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V.M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2017), Seven months’ understanding of everyday actions in communicative and non-communicative contexts [Paper], LuCiD Mini Conference, July 6–7, 2017, Lancaster (UK).

Kliesch, C., (2017), The effect of communication on infants’ understanding of actions: Evidence from Event-related potentials, eye-tracking and pupil dilation [Paper], Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference, June 27, 2017, Lancaster (UK)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V.M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2016), Infants’ understanding and learning of expected, unexpected and novel actions in pedagogical and non-pedagogical contexts [Paper], LuCiD Conference, September 21–22, 2016, Manchester (UK)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2016), Ostensive Communication and Teleological Understanding of Actions in 7 and 9-Month Old Infants [Poster], Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, August 25–27, 2016, Lancaster (UK)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2015), Ostensive Communication and Teleological Understanding of Actions in 7 and 9-Month Old Infants [Paper], LuCiD Conference, October 6–7, 2015, Liverpool (UK)

Kliesch, C., Reid, V.M., Theakston, A., & Parise, E., (2015), Ostensive Communication and Teleological Understanding of Actions in 7 and 9-Month Old Infants, [Paper], North West Doctoral Training Centre Psychology PathwayPostgraduate Conference, July 14, 2015, Liverpool (UK)

Kliesch, C., (2012), Implicit and explicit recursive mindreading [Paper], University of Edinburgh’s LEL Postgraduate Conference, May 14–16, 2012, Edinburgh (UK)