Dr Graham Schafer
- Joint Head of School
- School Director of International Recruitment
- Tutor for Overseas Students.
Areas of interest
Cognitive development, semantic development, early word learning, vocabulary development, lexical processing, categorisation.Teaching
- Undergraduate: Year 1: PY1SK Skills for psychology, PY1DV Developmental Psychology; Year 2 PY2TA Typical and Atypical development; Year 3 PY3ELD Early lexical development.
- Postgraduate: PYM0RT Research methods in psychology.
Research centres and groups
- Language and Cognition
- Child Development Group
- Lifespan Development.
Academic qualifications
- BA Experimental Psychology, Oxford
- BA Engineering, Cambridge
- DPhil Experimental Psychology, Oxford
- CPsychol
- CSci
- AFBPsS.
Publications
- Whyte, A. , Lamport, D. , Schafer, G. , Williams, C. (2020) The cognitive effects of an acute wild blueberry intervention on 7- to 10-year-olds using extended memory and executive function task batteries. Food & Function , 11 (5). pp. 4793-4801. ISSN: 2042-650X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9FO02284H
- Whyte, A. , Schafer, G. , Williams, C. (2017) The effect of cognitive demand on performance of an executive function task following wild blueberry supplementation in 7 to 10 years old children. Food & Function , 8 (11). pp. 4129-4138. ISSN: 2042-650X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7fo00832e
- Bose, A. and Schafer, G. (2017) Name agreement in aphasia. Aphasiology , 31 (10). pp. 1143-1165. ISSN: 1464-5041 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2016.1254148
- Whyte, A. , Schafer, G. , Williams, C. (2016) Cognitive effects following acute wild blueberry supplementation in 7 – 10 year old children. European Journal of Nutrition , 55 (6). pp. 2151-2162. ISSN: 1436-6215 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-015-1029-4
- Schafer, G. , Genesoni, L. , Boden, G. , Doll, H. , Jones, R. , Gray, R. , Adams, E. , Jefferson, R. (2014) Development and validation of a parent report measure for detection of cognitive delay in infancy. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , 56 (12). pp. 1194-1201. ISSN: 0012-1622 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.12565
- Cheng, X. , Schafer, G. , Riddell, P. (2014) Immediate auditory repetition of words and nonwords: An ERP study of lexical and sublexical processing. PLoS ONE , 9 (3). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091988
- Schafer, G. , Williams, T. , Smith, P. (2013) Which words are hard for autistic children to learn?. Mind and Language , 28 (5). pp. 661-698. ISSN: 1468-0017 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12038
- Baker, M. , Schafer, G. , Alcock, K. , Bartlett, S. (2013) A parentally-administered cognitive development assessment for children from 10 to 24 months. Infant Behavior and Development , 36 (2). pp. 279-287. ISSN: 0163-6383 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.007
- Mather, E. , Schafer, G. , Houston-Price, C. (2011) The impact of novel labels on visual processing during infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 29 (4). pp. 783-805. ISSN: 0261-510X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1348/2044-835X.002008
- Zammit, M. and Schafer, G. (2011) Maternal label and gesture use affects acquisition of specific object names. Journal of Child Language , 38 (1). pp. 201-221. ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000909990328
- Cheng, X. , Schafer, G. , Akyurek, E. (2010) Name agreement in picture naming: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 76 (3). pp. 130-141. ISSN: 0167-8760 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.03.003
- Baker, . and Schafer, . (2005) Cognitive abilities and contrastive responding [poster].
- Houston-Price, . , Plunkett, . , Duffy, . , Mather, . , Schafer, . (2005) Co-variation as a cue to words' meanings.
- Mather, . and Schafer, . (2005) Familiarity and novelty preferences for visual stimuli in the second year of life: initial findings and new directions [poster].
- O'Neill, . and Schafer, . (2005) The importance of maternal speech and gesture during labelling contexts to subsequent word learning [poster].
- Schafer, . (2005) Are words special? How could we know? .
- Tan, S. and Schafer, G. (2005) Toddlers' novel word learning: Effects of phonological representation, vocabulary size, and parents' ostensive behaviour. First Language , 25 (2). pp. 131-155. ISSN: 0142-7237 | doi: DOI:10.1177/0142723705050338
- Mills , D. , Plunkett, K. , Prat, C. , Schafer, G. (2005) Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive Development , 20 (1). pp. 19-31. ISSN: 0885-2014 | doi: DOI:10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.07.001
- Schafer, G. (2005) Infants Can Learn Decontextualized Words Before Their First Birthday. Child Development , 76 (1). pp. 87-96. ISSN: 0009-3920 | doi: DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00831.x
- Schafer, G. and Mareschal, D. (2001) Modeling infant speech sound discrimination using simple associative networks. Infancy , 2 (1). pp. 7-28. ISSN: 1525-0008 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327078IN0201_2
- Schafer, G. (2001) Intersensory origins of word comprehension: but what's the mechanism?. Developmental Science , 4 (1). pp. 23-26. ISSN: 1363-755X
- Hamilton, A. , Plunkett, K. , Schafer, G. (2000) Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory. Journal of Child Language , 27 (3). pp. 689-705. ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900004414
- Schafer, G. , Plunkett, K. , Harris, P. (1999) What's in a name? Lexical knowledge drives infants' visual preferences in the absence of referential input. Developmental Science , 2 (2). pp. 187-194. ISSN: 1363-755X | doi: DOI:10.1111/1467-7687.00067
- Schafer, G. and Plunkett, K. (1998) Rapid word learning by 15-month-olds under tightly-controlled conditions. Child Development , 69 (2). pp. 309-320. ISSN: 0009-3920 | doi: DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06190.x