Dr Liz Renner

Lecturer

Department: Psychology

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Key Publications

Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging, Vreden, C., Renner, E., Ainamani, H., Crowther, R., Forward, B., Mazari, S., Tuohy, G., Ndyareeba, E., Clay, Z. 1 Mar 2025, In: Developmental Science
Are there dedicated neural mechanisms for imitation? A study of grist and mills, Renner, E., Xie, Y., Subiaul, F., Hamilton, A. 26 Sep 2023, In: PLoS One
Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration, Kean, D., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Caldwell, C. 1 Mar 2023, In: Animal Cognition
Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour, Forman, J., Renner, E., Leavens, D. 14 Dec 2023, In: Scientific Reports
Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight, Blakey, K., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Caldwell, C. 23 Mar 2022, In: Scientific Reports
Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task, Dunstone, J., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Caldwell, C. 24 Feb 2022, In: Entropy
Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children, Blakey, K., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., Caldwell, C. 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children, Renner, E., Somai, R., Van der Stigchel, S., Campbell, C., Kean, D., Caldwell, C. 1 Nov 2021, In: Infant and Child Development
Cognitive prerequisites for cumulative culture are context-dependent: Children's potential for ratcheting depends on cue longevity, Wilks, C., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Caldwell, C. 1 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture, Blakey, K., Rafetsederi, E., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Cowan-Forsythe, F., Sati, S., Caldwell, C. 24 Aug 2021, In: PLoS One

Professional Activity

Invited talk: The Role of Memory in Cultural Evolution 2024
Oral presentation: Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour 2023

Qualifications

Other Courses PhD August 31 2015

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