Developmental Psychology - Dr. Christiane Patzwald

Other functions

• Academic advisor for students studying Psychology B.Sc. (cf. Academic Advisement in Psychology)
• Auditing officer for students studying Psychology B.Sc. (cf. Departmental Audit Board)

Research interests

Influences of social cues on action processing in infancy

Cooperation

Infant Action and Cognition Lab (head: Dr. Petra Hauf), St. Francis Xavier Universitiy, Antigonish, NS, Canada

Publications

Patzwald, C., Matthes, D., & Elsner, B. (2020). Eighteen-month-olds integrate verbal cues into their action processing: Evidence from ERPs and mu power. Infant Behavior and Development, 58. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101414

Patzwald, C., & Elsner, B. (2019). Do as I say - or as I do?! How 18- and 24-month-olds integrate words and actions to infer intentions in situations of match or mismatch. Infant Behavior and Development, 55, 46-57. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.03.004

Patzwald, C., Curley, C. A., Hauf, P., & Elsner, B. (2018). Differential effects of others’ emotional cues on 18-month-olds’ preferential reproduction of observed actions. Infant Behavior and Development, 51, 60-70. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.04.002

Conference contributions

Patzwald, C., Matthes, D., & Elsner, B. (2020, Juli). Using mu power to study 18-month-old’s context-dependent action processing: the case of verbal cues. Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies (virtual).

Patzwald, C., Matthes, D., & Elsner, B. (2019, September). Using mu power to study 18-month-olds‘ context-dependent action processing. In C. Patzwald (Chair), New insights from Infant EEG: how context shapes Action mirroring. Symposium conducted at the Joint Meeting of the sections for educational psychology and developmental psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany.

Patzwald, C., Schiller, M., & Elsner, B. (2017, January). How speech-action relatedness influences 24-month-olds‘ selective imitation. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Patzwald, C., Schiller, M., & Elsner, B. (2016, August). The influence of speech-action relatedness on 24-month-olds’ selective imitation. Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, Great Britain.

Patzwald, C., Curley, C. A., Hauf, P., & Elsner, B. (2016, May). Is 18-month-olds' imitation influenced by emotional cues? Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Patzwald, C., Curley, C. A., Hauf, P., & Elsner, B. (2016, January). Do emotional cues lead to differential imitation in 18-month-olds? Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Patzwald, C., Pfeifer, C., Radszun, N. A., & Elsner, B. (2014, July). Rational imitation in infancy and early childhood: the role of verbal information. Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.