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Dr. Claudia Kubicek

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Interests

 

audiovisual speech perception in infancy

infant-directed speech

perceptual narrowing

music and cognitive development

motor skills and predicitive abilities in perception and action

eye-tracking, VICON

 

CV

 

Since April 2018: Maternal Leave (second child)

 

August 2016 to September 2017: Maternal Leave

 

June 2014 to December 2017:

Post-Doc in a project of the SFB TRR/135 "Cardinal mechanisms of perception: prediction, valuation, categorization", Marburg and Gießen

 

July 2014: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

 

2011 to 2014:

Ph.D. student in the DFG-ANR-Project CrossMod: Cross-modal integration of face and language cues in infancy, in cooperation with Grenoble und Paris Descartes, France

 

April 2011: Diploma in Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

 

Awards

 

November 2016:

Justus-Liebig-University Dissertation Award

 

Further Education

 

June 2012 to June 2016:

Certificate "Competence for Professional Teaching" (200 hours, Hochschuldidaktisches Netzwerk Mittelhessen)

 

Publications

 

Gehb, G., Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B. & Schwarzer, G. (2019). The positive influence of manual object exploration on predictive grasping for a moving object in 9-month-old infants. Journal of Vision, 19(14), doi: 10.1167/19.14.13.

 

Kubicek, C., Gehb, G., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2019). Training of 7-month-old infants’ manual object exploration skills: Effects of active and observational experience. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101353

 

Schwarzer, G., Jovanovic, B., Kubicek, C., & Hegele, M. (2018). Object processing and motor development. Supplemental Issue, Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 6 (S1).

 

Schwarzer, G., Jovanovic, B., Kubicek, C., & Hegele, M. (2018).  Introduction: Object Processing and Motor Development. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 6(1), S1-S5.

 

Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2018). On the relation between infants’ spatial object processing and their motor skills. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 6 (1), S6-S23.

 

Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., Pascalis, O., & Schwarzer, G. (2018). Goldilocks vs. Goldlöckchen: Visual speech preference for same-rhythm-class languages in 6-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, e2084.

 

Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). How manual object exploration is associated with 7- to 8-month-old infants’ visual prediction abilities in spatial object processing. Infancy, 22, 857-873

 

Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). The relation between crawling and 9-month-old infants’ visual prediction abilities in spatial object processing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 158, 64-76.

 

Degé, F., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2015). Associations between musical abilities and precursors of reading in preschool aged children. Frontiers in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 6:1220. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01220

 

Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Pascalis, O., Loevenbruck, H., & Schwarzer, G. (2014). The influence of infant-directed speech on 12-month-olds’ intersensory perception of fluent speech. Infant Behavior & Development, 37(4), 644-651.

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Pascalis, O., Loevenbruck, H., Gervain, J., & Schwarzer, G. (2014). Cross-modal matching of audio-visual German and French fluent speech in infancy. PLoS ONE 9(2): e89275. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089275

 

Degé, F., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2013). Entwicklungspsychologische Aspekte der Sexualität. In: A.-V. Stirn, R. Stark, K. Tabbert, S. Wehrum-Osinsky und S. Oddo (Hrsg.). Sexualität, Körper und Neurobiologie: Grundlagen und Störungsbilder im interdisziplinären Fokus (S. 35-45). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Loevenbruck, H., Gervain, J., & Schwarzer, G. (2013). Face-scanning behavior to silently-talking faces in 12-month-old infants: The impact of pre-exposed auditory speech. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 105-109.

 

Degé, F., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2011). Music lessons and intelligence: A relation mediated by executive functions. Music Perception, 29, 195-201.

 

Conference Contributions

 

Jovanovic, B., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). How motor skills affect children’s efficient motor planning. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPSY) in Münster, Germany (Talk).

 

Gehb, G., Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). Der Zusammenhang motorischer Fähigkeiten mit dem prädiktiven Greifverhalten 9-monatiger Säuglinge [The relation between motor skills and 9-month-olds' manual predictive abilities]. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPSY) in Münster, Germany (Poster).

 

Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). The relation between crawling and 9-month-old infants’ visual prediction abilities in spatial object processing. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, USA.  

 

Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). How manual object exploration is related to 7- to 8-month-old infants’ visual prediction abilities in spatial object processing. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, USA.

 

Kubicek, C., Jovanovic, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2016). The relation between infants’ visual prediction abilities and their motor skills. 50. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Leipzig (Talk).

 

Götz, A., Krasotkina, A., Höhle, B., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2016). Perceptual narrowing in speech and face recognition in infancy: Domain-general vs. domain-specific mechanisms in attunement and its modification. 50. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Leipzig, Germany.

 

Kubicek, C.(2016). Audio-visual speech perception in infancy: Developmental processes and underlying mechanisms. Symposium “How do children learn – Neuropsychological approaches towards attention and memory processes in childhood”, Leibniz-Institute Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany (Talk).

 

Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., Pascalis, O., & Schwarzer, G. (2015). Visual speech preference in 6-month-old infants: A sex difference. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Philadelphia, USA (Poster).

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Gervain, J., Pascalis, O.,  Loevenbruck, H., & Schwarzer, G. (2014). The influence of infant-directed speech on 12-month-olds' intersensory perception of fluent speech. XIX. Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) in Berlin (Poster).

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Pascalis, O., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., & Schwarzer, G. (2014). Visual language discrimination in 6-month-old infants. 56. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) in Gießen, Germany (Talk).

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Pascalis, O., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., & Schwarzer, G. (2013). Integration gehörter und gesehener Sprache im Säuglingsalter [Audio-visual speech percpetion in infancy]. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie der DGPs (EPSY) in Saarbrücken, Germany (Poster).

 

Macchi Cassia, V., Proietti, V., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. (2013). The effects of early-and later-acquired experience on adults’ ability to process infant faces. European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Lausanne, Switzerland (Talk).

 

Kubicek, C., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Pascalis, O., Loevenbruck, H., Gervain, J., & Schwarzer, G. (2013). Cross-modal matching of audiovisual German and French speech in infancy. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, USA (Poster).

 

Kubicek, C.., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Dupierrix, E., Pascalis, O., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., & Schwarzer, G. (2012). Visuelle Sprachwahrnehmung bei 6 und 12 Monate alten Säuglingen [Visual speech perception in 6- and 12-month-old infants]. 47. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Bielefeld, Germany (Talk).

 

Schwarzer, G., Kubicek, C., & Gervain, J. (2012). CrossMod: Cross-modal integration of language and face cues in German and French infants. Kolloquium des DFG-ANR-Förderprogramms, Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy (Talk).

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer

 

  • Developmental Science
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Language Learning
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • First Language
  • International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Frontiers in Cognitive Science
  • Frontiers in Language Science
  • PLoS ONE

 

Teaching

 

Winter term 2015/16 „Developmental Psychology”

 

Summer term 2015 „Developmental Psychology”

 

Winter term 2014/15 „Cognitive Development and Cognitive Disorders”

Winter term 2014/15 „Selected topics of Educational Psychology“

 

Summer term 2014 „Selected topics of Educational Psychology“

Summer term 2014 „Developmental Psychology”

 

Winter term 2013/14 „Developmental Psychology”

Winter term 2013/14 „Selected topics of Educational Psychology“

 

Summer term 2013 „Developmental Neuroscience”

Summer term 2013 „Selected topics of Educational Psychology“

Summer term 2013 „Developmental Psychology”

 

Summer term 2012 „Developmental Psychology ”

 

Winter term 2011/12 „Developmental Psychology”