I spend most of my time in Barcelona (Spain), but can regularly be found in Utrecht (the Netherlands). However, I do travel elsewhere to attend conferences and am always open for speaking engagements.

Upcoming:

NVP Winter Congress (Egmond aan Zee, NL)

ICIS 2024 (Glasgow, UK)

Past:

Oral presentations

Zaadnoordijk, L. (April, 2023). Lessons from infant learning for unsupervised machine learning. Trinity College School of Psychology Seminar Series, Dublin, Ireland.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (September, 2022). Developing development: Of babies and machines. SMILES workshop, virtual presentation.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (June, 2022). Lessons from infant learning for unsupervised machine learning. Department of Computer Science, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (April, 2022). Testing infants online: Lessons from small and big-scale projects. EMLAR, Utrecht University, virtual presentation.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (January 2022). Studying the sense of agency in development. Consciousness Club, University College London, virtual presentation.

Zaadnoordijk, L. & Cusack, R. (September 2021). Conducting studies with infants online. Innovations in Online Research, virtual conference.

Zaadnoordijk, L. & Bayne, T. (September 2021). The origins of intentional agency. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, virtual conference.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (August 2021). Did I do that? On the emergence of the sense of agency. Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology (PI: Prof. M. Paulus), Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (July 2021). The emerging sense of agency in infancy. The Active Self Summer School, virtual conference.

Zaadnoordijk, L. & Hunnius, S. (August, 2020). The emerging sense of agency and its relation to motor development. MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, virtual presentation.

Zaadnoordijk, L. & Cusack, R. (June 2020). Conducting preferential looking studies with infants online: Unique challenges and solutions. Be Online 2020, virtual conference 

Zaadnoordijk, L. (November 2019). It's complicated: The relation between sense of agency and motor control. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Developmental Psychology and Robotic Interactions, Paris, France.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (August 2018). Developmental aspects of the sense of agency. Self Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Meyer, M., Zaharieva, M., Kemalasari, F., van Pelt, S., & Hunnius, S. (May 2018). Do infants’ actions have consequences? Electrophysiological evidence for the emerging sense of agency in early infancy. Jean Piaget Society Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (December 2017). Discovering structure in the confusion: The emerging sense of agency. Invited talk at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Zaadnoordijk, L. (November 2017). Of bots and babies: Insights into the developing sense of agency. Invited presentation for the Scientific Advisory Board of the Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Uddén, J., Hultén, A., Hagoort, P., & Fonteijn, H. (May 2014). Between-subject variance in resting-state fMRI connectivity predicts fMRI activation in a language task. MPI Proudly Presents. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Poster presentations

Zaadnoordijk, L., Bergmann, C., Buckler, H, Cusack, R., Tsuji, S. (January 2022). Making Online Testing Accessible Across the World: Insights from ManyBabies-AtHome. BCCCD, virtual conference.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Markey, O., DeBurca, A., Kelly, M., & Cusack, R. (January 2022). The Effects of Visual Stimulus Complexity on Infant Curiosity: An Online Study. BCCCD, virtual conference.

Bergmann, C., Buckler, H., Cusack, R., Tsuji, S., Zaadnoordijk, L., & The ManyBabies-AtHome Consortium (October 2020). Toward a large-scale collaboration for infant online testing: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome. Many Paths to Language (virtual MPaL 2020), virtual conference.

Zaadnoordijk, L., & Cusack, R. (2020) Conducting and improving internet-based preferential looking studies. International Congress of Infant Studies, virtual conference.

Kravchenko, A., Zaadnoordijk, L., Nipoti, B., & Cusack, R. (August 2019) The curious case of infant learning. LCICD, Lancaster, UK.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Meyer, M., Zaharieva, M., Kemalasari, F., van Pelt, S., & Hunnius, S. (July 2018). Electrophysiological evidence for the emerging sense of agency in early infancy. International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia PA, USA.

Zaadnoordijk, L., & Hunnius, S. (January 2018). Studying subjective experiences in infants: A case study from the developing sense of agency. BCCCD, Budapest, Hungary.

Zaadnoordijk, L., & Hunnius, S. (July 2017). Studying subjective experiences in infants: A case study from the developing sense of agency. Aegina Summer School, Aegina, Greece.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Meyer, M., Zaharieva, M., Kemalasari, F., van Pelt, S., & Hunnius, S. (March 2017). Sense of agency in infancy: Testing for causal model building. Einstein Visiting Fellows Symposium: Me & I. Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives on the Self, Berlin, Germany.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Otworowska, M., Kwisthout, J., Hunnius, S., & van Rooij, I. (September 2016). The mobile-paradigm as a measure of infants’ sense of agency: Insights from babybot simulations. The Sixth Joint IEEE International Conference of Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, Cergy-Pontoise, France.

Otworowska, M., Zaadnoordijk, L., de Wolff, E., Kwisthout, J., & van Rooij, I. (September 2016). Causal learning in the Crib: A predictive processing formalization and babybot simulation. The Sixth Joint IEEE International Conference of Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Cergy-Pontoise, France.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Otworowska, M., Kwisthout, J., Hunnius, S., & van Rooij, I. (May 2016). The mobile-paradigm as a measure of infants’ sense of agency: Insights from babybot simulations. 20th International Congress of Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.  

Zaadnoordijk, L., Hunnius, S., Meyer, M., Kwisthout, J., & van Rooij, I. (August 2015). The developing sense of agency: Implications from cognitive phenomenology. The Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference of Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Providence, RI, USA.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Hunnius, S., Meyer, M., Kwisthout, J., & van Rooij, I. (July 2015). What sense of agency do infants have? The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Drijvers, L., Zaadnoordijk, L., & Dingemanse, M. (July 2015).  Sound-Symbolism is disrupted in dyslexia: Implications for the role of cross-modal abstraction processes. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Zaadnoordijk, L., Uddén, J., Hultén, A., Hagoort, P., & Fonteijn, H. (August 2014). Between-subject variance in resting-state fMRI connectivity predicts fMRI activation in a language task-Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Attendance without presentation

Jean Piaget Society Meeting (May 2023) Madrid, Spain.

Lorentz Workshop "Developing Models of the World" (May 2021) Virtual

Brain produces mind by modeling (May 2019) Sackler Colloquium, Newport, CA, USA.

Cognition and Ontologies (CAOS) workshop (July 2016), Annecy, France.

SMART Cognitive Science (March 2015), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

(Computational) Modeling in Infant Research (October 2014) Baby, Brain & Cognition Network, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.