Prof. Dr. Ulf Liszkowski

Auszeichnungen

International Society for Infant Studies Conference Award 2008

The George Butterworth Young Scientist Award 2007

In Press

Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., (…Liszkowski, U...) Frank, M., Rakoczy, R. (accepted; Stage 1 Registered Report). Action anticipation based on an agent’s epistemic state in toddlers and adults. PsyArXiv Preprint

2025

Mayer,M. & Liszkowski, U. (2025). Out of sight, not out of mind: New pupillometric evidence on object permanence in a sample of 10- and 12-month-old German infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2025 Jan, 249: 106060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106060

2023

Alexander, N; Illius, S.; Feyerabend, D.; Wacker, J.; Liszkowski, U. (2023). Commentary on Burt: Don’t miss the chance to reap the fruits of recent advances in behavioral genetics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Kaletsch, K. & Liszkowski, U. (2023). A new online Paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101907

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1i9SvbDG47JQV (available until 15/01/2024)

Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann, J.-R., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890

Haskaraca, F. N., Proft, M., Liszkowski, U., & Rakoczy, H. (2023). How robust are egocentric and altercentric interference effects in social cognition? A test with explicit and implicit versions of a continuous false belief task. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.

Ertaş, S., Koşkulu‐Sancar, S., Ger, E., Liszkowski, U., & Küntay, A. C. (2023). Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports. Infancy.

Ger, E., Küntay, A. C., Ertaş, S., Koşkulu-Sancar, S., & Liszkowski, U. (2023). Correlates of Infant Pointing Frequency in the First Year. Infancy.

Rüther, J. & Liszkowski, U. (2023). Ontogeny of index-finger pointing. Journal of Child Language. 1-17.  https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000053

Kobayashi, H., Yasuda, T., Liszkowski, U. (2023). Marked Pointing Facilitates Learning Part Names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning. Journal of Child Language. 50(2), 296-310.  doi:10.1017/S0305000921000891

2022

Karthik, S., Parise, E., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). Mirroring communicative actions: Contextual modulation of mu rhythm desynchronization in response to the ‘Back-of-hand’action in 9-month-old infants. Developmental Neuropsychology, 47(3), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2022.2055033

Klafka, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). Four-year-olds adapt their deception to the epistemic states of others. Cognitive Development, 64, 101243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101243

Rohlfing, K.J.; Lüke, C.; Liszkowski, U.; Ritterfeld, U.; Grimminger, A. (2022). Developmental Paths of Pointing for Various Motives in Infants with and without Language Delay. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19(9), 4982; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094982.

Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). In Bilinguals' Hands: Identification of Bilingual, Preverbal Infants at Risk for Language Delay. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 872.

2021

Koskulu, S., Uzundağ, B., Liszkowski, U., Küntay, A. Number and Type of Toys Affect Joint Attention of Mothers and Infants. Infant Behavior and Development. 2021 Aug;64:101589. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101589. Epub 2021 May 29. PMID: 34058634.

Heinrich, M. & Liszkowski, U.  Three-year olds’ spontaneous lying in a novel interaction-based paradigm and its relations to explicit skills and motivational factors. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2021 Jul;207:105125. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105125. Epub 2021 Mar 21. PMID: 33761406.

Jartó, M. & Liszkowski, U. Inferring hidden objects from still and communicative onlookers at 8-, 14- and 36-months of age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2021 Jul;207:105115. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105115. Epub 2021 Mar 9. PMID: 33706217.

Klafka, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2021). The Emergence of Lying for Reputational Concerns in 5-Year-Olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 4070. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700695/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=700695

Liszkowski, U. & Rüther, J. (2021). Ontogenetic origins of infant pointing. In Eds. Gontier, N., Lock, A., Sinha, C. Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Online Publication Date: Apr 2021, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.31

Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, R.K., Renswoude, D. R. van, Black, A., Barr, R., Brown, A., Colomer, M., Durrant, S., Gampe, A., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hay, J. F., Hernik, M., Jartó, M., Kovács, A. M., Laoun-Rubenstein, A., Lew-Williams, C., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Noble, C., Potter, C. E., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Sebastian-Galles, N., Soderstrom, M., Visser, I., Waddell, C., Wermelinger, S., & Singh, L. (2021). Development of Gaze Following in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: A Multi-Lab Study. Infancy, 26(1), 4-38.

2020

Wenzel, L., Dörrenberg, S., Proft, M., Liszkowski, U., & Rakoczy, H. (2020). Actions do not speak louder than words in an interactive false belief task. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 191998.

Pätzold, W. & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Pupillometric VoE paradigm reveals that 18- but not 10-month-olds spontaneously represent occluded objects (but not empty sets). PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230913.

Rüther, J., & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Ontogenetic Emergence of Cognitive Reference Comprehension. Cognitive Science, 44(7), e12869.

The ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809

Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., & Liszkowski, U. (2020). Integrated Communication System: Gesture and Language Acquisition in Typically Developing Children and Children With LD and DLD. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 118. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00118

2019

Pätzold, W. & Liszkowski, U. Pupillometry reveals communication‐induced object expectations in 12‐ but not 8‐months‐old infants. Developmental Science.  https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12832

Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., Lüke, C., Liszkowski, U., & Ritterfeld, U. (2019). Decontextualized talk in caregivers’ input to 12-month-old children during structured interaction. Journal of Child Language, 1-17.

Dörrenberg, S., Wenzel, L., Proft, M., Rakoczy, H. & Liszkowski, U. (2019). Reliability and generalizability of an acted-out false belief task in 3-year-olds. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.11.

2018

Poulin-Dubois, D., Rakoczy, H., Burnside, K., Crivello, C., Dörrenberg, S., Edwards, K., Krist, H., Kulke, L., Liszkowski, U., Low, J., Perner, J., Powell, L., Priewasser, B., Rafetseder, E., Ruffman, T. (2018). Do infants understand false beliefs? We don’t know yet -- A commentary on Baillargeon, Buttelmann and Southgate’s commentary. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.09.005

Liszkowski, U. (2018). Emergence of shared reference and shared minds in infancy. Current opinion in psychology, 23, 26-29.

Dörrenberg, S., Rakoczy, H., & Liszkowski, U. (2018). How (not) to measure infant Theory of Mind: Testing the replicability and validity of four non-verbal measures. Cognitive Development. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.01.001

Ger, E., Altınok, N., Liszkowski, U., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Development of Infant Pointing from 10 to 12 months: The Role of Relevant Caregiver Responsiveness. Infancy 7(5). 708-729.

Kersken, V., Gómez, J. C., Liszkowski, U., Soldati, A., & Hobaiter, C. (2018). A gestural repertoire of 1-to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures. Animal Cognition. 1-19.

Liszkowski, U. (2018). Origins and complexities of infant communication and social cognition. In A. Newen, L. d. Bruin & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2017

Liszkowski, U. (2017). Emergence of shared reference and shared minds in infancy. Current opinion in psychology.

Lüke, C., Grimminger, A., Rohlfing, K. J., Liszkowski, U. & Ritterfeld, U. (2017). In infants’ hands: Identification of preverbal infants at risk for primary language delay. Child Development, 88, 484-492. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12610

Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Grimminger, A., Liszkowski, U., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2017). Development of pointing gestures in children with typical and delayed language acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(11), 3185-3197.

2016

Esteve-Gibert, N., Liszkowski, U., & Prieto, P. (2016). Prosodic and gesture features distinguish the pragmatic meaning of pointing gestures in child-directed communication.

Esteve‐Gibert, N., Prieto, P., & Liszkowski, U. (2017). Twelve‐Month‐Olds Understand Social Intentions Based on Prosody and Gesture Shape. Infancy, 22(1), 108-129.

Grimminger, A., Lüke, C., Ritterfeld, U., Liszkowski, U., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2016). Effekte von Objekt-Familiarisierung auf die frühe gestische Kommunikation. Frühe Bildung, 5, 91-98.

Ramenzoni, V. C., & Liszkowski, U. (2016). The social reach: 8-month-olds reach for unobtainable objects in the presence of another person. Psychological science, 27(9), 1278-1285.

2015

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). Social referencing during infancy and early childhood across cultures. In International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences.

Grünloh, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2015). Prelinguistic vocalizations distinguish pointing acts. Journal of child language, 42(6), 1312-1336.

Liszkowski, U. (2015). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation und sozial-kognitive Voraussetzungen des Spracherwerbs. In S. Sachse (Hrsg.), Handbuch Spracherwerb und Sprachentwicklungsstörungen. Kleinkindphase. München: Elsevier.

Liszkowski, U., & Ramenzoni, V. C. (2015). Pointing to Nothing? Empty Places Prime Infants' Attention to Absent Objects. Infancy, 20(4), 433-444.

Thorgrimsson, G. B., Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2015). 1-and 2-year-olds’ expectations about third-party communicative actions. Infant Behavior and Development, 39, 53-66.

2014

Liszkowski, U. (2014). Pointing. In P. Brooks, & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development. (Vol. 15, pp. 471-473). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Liszkowski, U. (2014). Two sources of meaning in infant communication: preceding action contexts and act-accompanying characteristics. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 369(1651), 20130294.

Thorgrimsson, G. B., Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2014). Infants’ expectations about gestures and actions in third-party interactions. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 321.

Goot, M. H., Tomasello, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2014). Differences in the nonverbal requests of great apes and human infants. Child Development, 85(2), 444-455.

2013

Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). One-year-olds warn others about negative action outcomes. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 424-436.

Liszkowski, U. (2013). Using theory of mind. Child Development Perspectives, 7(2), 104-109.

Ozturk, O., Shayan, S., Liszkowski, U., & Majid, A. (2013). Language is not necessary for color categories. Developmental Science, 16(1), 111-115.

Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2013). Sociocultural settings influence the emergence of prelinguistic deictic gestures. Child development, 84(4), 1296-1307.

2012

Behne, T., Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Twelve‐month‐olds’ comprehension and production of pointing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30(3), 359-375.

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Infants anticipate others' social preferences. Infant and Child Development, 21(3), 239-249.

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Mimicry and play initiation in 18-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 35(4), 689-696.

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Observation and initiation of joint action in infants. Child development, 83(2), 434-441.

Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). 18‐month‐olds predict specific action mistakes through attribution of false belief, not ignorance, and intervene accordingly. Infancy, 17(6), 672-691.

Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). Eighteen‐and 24‐month‐old infants correct others in anticipation of action mistakes. Developmental science, 15(1), 113-122.

Liszkowski, U., Brown, P., Callaghan, T., Takada, A., & De Vos, C. (2012). A prelinguistic gestural universal of human communication. Cognitive Science, 36(4), 698-713.

Puccini, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). 15-month-old infants fast map words but not representational gestures of multimodal labels. Frontiers in psychology, 3, 101.

Puccini, D., Hassemer, M., Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2012). The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication [Reprint]. In J.-M. Colletta, & M. Guidetti (Eds.), Gesture and multimodal development (pp. 157-174). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2011

Callaghan, T., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., Liszkowski, U., Behne, T., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, i-142.

Liszkowski, U. (2011). Three lines in the emergence of prelinguistic communication and social cognition. Journal of cognitive education and psychology, 10(1), 32.

Liszkowski, U., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing. Cognitive Development, 26(1), 16-29.

2010

Liszkowski, U. (2010). Before L1. A differentiated perspective on infant gestures. Gestures in language development, 35-51.

Liszkowski, U. (2010). Deictic and other gestures in infancy. Acción psicológica, 7(2).

Puccini, D., Hassemer, M., Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2010). The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication. Gesture, 10(2), 279-296.

2009

Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science, 20(5), 654-660.

Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2009). Socialisation of prelinguistic communication. In Field manual volume 12 (pp. 56-57). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

2008

Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Gräfenhain, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., & Wyman, E. (2008). Cultural learning and cultural creation. Social life and social knowledge: Toward a process account of development, 65-101.

Liszkowski, U. (2008). Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures. Gesture, 8(2), 180-196.

Liszkowski, U., Albrecht, K., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Infants’ visual and auditory communication when a partner is or is not visually attending. Infant Behavior and Development, 31(2), 157-167.

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. Cognition, 108(3), 732-739.

2007

Liszkowski, U. (2007). Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for for a communicative partner. Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates, 10, 123.

Liszkowski, U., & Brown, P. (2007). Infant pointing (9-25 months) in different cultures. In Field Manual Volume 10 (pp. 82-88). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age. Developmental science, 10(2).

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Reference and attitude in infant pointing. Journal of child language, 34(1), 1-20.

Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., & Liszkowski, U. (2007). A new look at infant pointing. Child development, 78(3), 705-722.

2006

Liszkowski, U. (2006). Infant pointing at twelve months: Communicative goals, motives, and social-cognitive abilities. In Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition and interaction (pp. 153-178). Berg.

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M. (2006). 12-and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7(2), 173-187.

2005

Liszkowski, U. (2005). Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner. Gesture, 5(1), 135-154.

Liszkowski, U. (2005). Infant Pointing and its Role in the Ontogeny of Human Communication ans Social Cognition (Doctoral dissertation).

Striano, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2005). Sensitivity to the context of facial expression in the still face at 3-, 6-, and 9-months of age. Infant Behavior and development, 28(1), 10-19.

2004

Brown, P., Gaskins, S., Lieven, E., Striano, T., & Liszkowski, U. (2004). Multimodal multiperson interaction with infants aged 9 to 15 months. In Field Manual Volume 9 (pp. 56-63). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Henning, A., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M. (2004). Twelve‐month‐olds point to share attention and interest. Developmental science, 7(3), 297-307.

2003

Liszkowski, U., & Epps, P. (2003). Directing attention and pointing in infants: a cross-cultural approach. In Field research manual 2003, part I: Multimodal interaction, space, event representation (pp. 25-27). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

2000

Liszkowski, U. (2000). A belief about theory of mind: The relation between children's inhibitory control and their common sense psychological knowledge. Master Thesis, University of Essex.

Editorial board member for Developmental Science

Action Editor for British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Ad hoc reviewer: American Psychologist; Applied Psycholinguistics; Behavioral Processes; British Journal of Developmental Psychology; Cognition; Child Development; Developmental Psychology; Developmental Review; Developmental Science; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; First Language; Gesture; Human Development; Interaction Studies; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Comparative Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Language Learning and Development; Nature; NSF; Oxford University Press; PNAS; Psychological Science; Review of Philosophy and Psychology; Science; Social Development; Social Psychology; and others

Fachverbände: Association for Psychological Science; Jean Piaget Society; Society for Research in Child Development; European Society for Developmental Psychology, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

2013

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Imperative pointing revisited. In: Perspectives on the motivation to point in young infants (Rohlfing & Grimminger). January.

Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development. How prelinguistic vocalizations contribute to the meaning of pointing. In: Emerging prelinguistic vocal-gestural communication: variable production relative to context and maternal responsiveness (Gros-Luis, J.) April.

Center for Academic Studies, Tel Aviv (Prof. Strauss). Tba. In: Conference on teaching. May.

2012

Workshop at UCL "What if... the study of language started from the investigation of signed, rather than spoken, languages?" (Drs. Perniss/Vigliocco/Thompson/Vinson). Prelinguistic foundations of human communication. January.

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Bahvior. Using Theory-of-mind in infancy.

Multimodal language learning and acquisition workshop (Prof. A. Özyürek). Discussant to L. Smith, E. Parise, K. Rohlfing.

University of Barcelona, UPF (Prof. P. Prieto). How infants communicate: Meaning, Gestures, Modes.

2011

Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development. Prelinguistic Comprehension and Production of Gestural Deictic Reference to Present and Absent Entities. In: The Development of Referential Understanding (Dr. D. Yurovsky).

Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development. Infants Transmit Relevant Information to Spare Others' Mistakes. In: Multiple Perspectives on Children's Teaching (Dr. S. Kim).

University of Trier (Prof. N. Baumann). Soziale Kognition und Motivation im Säuglingsalter.

Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Spracherwerbsforschung und kindliche Sprachstörungen im deutschsprachigen Raum; GISKID (Prof. J. Siegmüller, Prof. A. Fox-Boyer & Dr. P. Marschik). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation in sozialen und kulturellen Kontexten. May.

Frontiers in Linguistics, Acquisition and Multilingualism (Profs. L. Roberts, P. Muysken, C. Dimroth). Discussant to Lila Gleitman, Syntax and semantics and L1 acquisition. May.

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Infants' interactions in different social contexts and cultural settings. In: Processes of infant/toddler-caregiver communicative patterns across cultural contexts (Prof. A. Kuntay). June.

Workshop on multimodal communication, University of Bielefeld (Dr. Rohlfing). Prelinguistic communication and its socio-cultural emergence. July.

Center for the study of mind in nature: Conference on children's metarepresentational and communicative development (Prof. R. Carston & Prof. D. Wilson). Tba. September.

Fachtagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Erfurt, Germany. tba. September.

2010

Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof. J. Asendorpf). Die kognitive und soziale Entwicklung menschlicher Kommunikation.

University of Heidelberg, SDF (Dr. Barbara Schmiedtova). Vorsprachliche Grundlagen menschlicher Kommunikation.

Conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Prelinguistic foundations of human communication. In: Interactional foundations of language (Prof. K. M. Jaszczolt).

University of Osnabrück (Prof. H. Keller). Sozial-kulturelle Entwicklung vorsprachlicher Kommunikation und sozialer Kognition.

University of Cologne (Prof. E. Aschersmann). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation und soziale Kognition.

University of Stirling (Dr. E. Hoicka). Social and cognitive complexities of prelinguistic communication.

University of Konstanz (Prof. B. Renner). Sozial-kognitive und –motivationale Grundlagen vorsprachlicher Kommunikation.

2009

Lancaster University (Prof. C. Lewis). Intentionality of infant pointing.

Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development, Denver, USA. Communicating appropriately, following others' knowledge, intentions, and beliefs. In: Reasoning about false beliefs in toddlers (Dr. R. Scott).

University of Amsterdam (Dr. C. Colonnesi). Communication and social cognition in infant pointing.

Workshop on pragmatic development, Lyon. (Grosse, Matthews, Tomasello). Prelinguistic communication on a mental level.

A Week of Gesture & Sign Language talks, MPI Nijmegen/ NGC (Ozyurek, Seyfeddinipur, Gullberg). Social, cognitive, and morphological differences in the emergence of pointing at 12 months.

Acquisition Group, MPI Nijmegen (Prof. W. Klein). Psychological and social foundations of prelinguistic communication.

BA-honours lecture, University of Leiden (Prof. Arie Verhagen). On usage and origins of prelinguistic communication.

Lille University Conference: From gesture to sign: pointing in oral and signed languages. Social, cognitive & morphological differences in the emergence of pointing at 12 months.

European Conference on Philosophy and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary. Prelinguistic infants - but not chimpanzees - have and understand referential intentions about invisible and displaced entities. In: Reference in the first few years of life (Prof. M. Allen-Preissler).

Fachtagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Hildesheim, Germany. Kleinkinder korrigieren andere in Erwartung fehlerhafter Handlungen. In: Sozial-kognitive Entwicklung in der frühen Kindheit (Dr. M. Daum).

University of Hamburg (Prof. Bamberg). Psychologische Grundlagen menschlicher Kommunikation im Säuglingsalter.

University of Konstanz (Prof. Trommsdorff). Intentionalität vorsprachlichen Zeigens bei Kindern und Schimpansen.

2008

Tilburg University (M. Malder, Prof. v.d. Vijver).  Does culture influence prelinguistic communication?

MPI Nijmegen (Prof. S. Levinson). Communication before Language.

University College London (Prof. R. Breheny, R. Carston). Prelinguistic communication.

Leiden University (Dr. Szilvia Biro). Social cognition and cooperation in infant communication.

Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavior and Development, Würzburg, Germany. In: The Development of Social Cognition in the First Year of Life (Dr. C. Thoermer).

Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK. Social and cognitive factors in the emergence of pointing. In: Pragmatic constraints and resource diversity in caregiver-infant interactions across cultures (Dr. A. Takada).

2007

European Conference on Developmental Psychology (invited address). 12-month-olds’ pointing: Communication, social cognition and prosocial motivation.

Workshop of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project (Prof. S. Laurence). Discussant of cross-cultural infancy research.

Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development, Boston, USA. A new look at infant pointing. In: Complexities of 1-year-olds’ communication (Dr. M. Carpenter).

Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London, UK (Prof. G. Csibra). The connection between referential communication and prosocial motives.

Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Society). Communication before language.

2006

The Nijmegen Lectures (Dr. T. Stivers). Discussant to Prof. P. Bloom, But is it art?

University of Saarbrücken, Germany (Prof. G. Aschersleben). Soziales Verhalten – soziale Kognition. Die Rolle der Zeigegeste in der frühkindlichen Entwicklung

Workshop on Gesture in Language Development, University Groningen, Nl (Dr. M. Gullberg). Infant pointing: New evidence for prelinguistic communication and social-cognitive understanding.

Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nl (Dr. P. Brown). Cross-cultural aspects of Mother-Infant interactions.

2005

European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Tenerife, Spain. Twelve-month-olds point to provide information for others. In: Language learning and early interaction: a symposium in honour of Luigia Camaioni (Prof. M. Harris).

Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, Canada. Motives of pointing in human 12-month-olds. In: Assessing Social Understanding in the Communicative Interactions of Human Infants and Non-Human Primates (Dr. T. Racine).

Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nl (Dr. P. Brown). Preverbal communication in ontogeny.

University of Bristol, UK (Prof. B. Hood). Infant pointing, communication, and social cognition - current research and future directions.

2004

Workshop on Gestural Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates, Leipzig, Germany (Prof. C. Müller, Dr. K. Liebal & Dr. S. Pika). Motives and social-cognitive abilities in infant pointing.

Wenner-Gren Symposium 134., Duck, North Carolina, USA (Prof. S. Levinson). Infant pointing at twelve months: communicative goals, motives, and social-cognitive abilities.

Wolfgang-Köhler Zoo, Leipzig, Germany (Dr. B. Hare). Social cognition and communication.

Jean Piaget Society (2010). Three- to 15-month-olds' social-interactional experiences.

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (2011). Development of social cognition in the first two years of life (Invited Symposium; Organizer: U. Liszkowski).

Competencies across different cultural settings (U. Liszkowski).

One-day symposium at the MPI f. Psycholinguistics & Donders Center for Cognition (2010). Entertaining Interacting Minds (Liszkowski, U. & Sebantz, N.).

Two-day workshop at the MPI f. Psycholinguistics (2009). Cross-cultural research in infancy (U. Liszkowski & D. Salomo).

International Conference on Infant Studies (2008). Social Cognition for Communication: Infants’ and Toddlers’ Production and Comprehension of Displaced and Iconic Reference (U. Liszkowski).

18. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Entwicklungpsychologie (2007). Early development of shared intentionality in the context of communication and joint actions (Rakoczy, H., Gräfenhain, M. & Liszkowski, U.).

Jean Piaget Society (2005). Pointing, Communicative Intentions, and Reference to the Absent: Infant Communicative and Social-Cognitive Abilities (U. Liszkowski & M. Saylor).

17. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Entwicklungpsychologie (2005). Empathie, Kommunikation und Kooperation in der frühen Kindheit (U. Liszkowski, F. Warneken, H. Rakoczy).

Kongress d. Dt. Gesellschaft für Psychologie (2004). Sozial-kognitive Fähigkeiten in der frühen Kindheit (F. Warneken, U. Liszkowski & H. Moll).

International Conference on Infant Studies (2004). Infant Pointing: Function, Motives, and Social-Cognitive Abilities (U. Liszkowski & M. Carpenter).

Administrative committees:

2023-current: Dekan der Fakultät PB

2021-2023: Prodekan für Forschung

2013-2020: §38 Eingangsprüfung für beruflich Qualifizierte ohne Hochschulzugangsberechtigung

Promotionsausschuss, Ausschuss für Nachwuchsförderung

Ausschuss für Lehre und Studium (LuST)

Lokale Ethikkommission (LEK)

Mitglied im Fakultätsrat

Scientific committees:

- International conference "From gesture to sign: pointing in spoken and signed languages", Lille, France, 2009.

- Multimod 2009: "Multimodality of communication in children: gestures, emotions, language and cognition", Toulouse, France, 2009.

- George Butterworth Young Scientist Award Committee, 2009

- International Conference of Infant Studies (ICIS), 2012, Action & Perception board.

- 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lund, Sweden, 2012.

- International Union of Psychological Science, Young Investigator Awards, 2012.

Ich interessiere mich für die biologischen und sozialen Ursprünge menschlicher Kognition und sozialer Interaktion. Ich untersuche die Objektverarbeitung und statistisches Lernen; Handlungsverständnis und Theory of Mind; vorsprachliche Kommunikation, Gesten, und Temperamentsunterschiede. Ich nutze phylogenetische, ontogenetische, und kulturelle Ansätze zur menschlichen Entwicklung. Ich nutze eine Vielzahl von Paradigmen, von neurophysiologischen Maßen zu interaktionsbasierten Experimenten.