Dr. Patricia de Brito Castilho Wesseling
SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, COORDINATOR OF GRADUATE SCHOOL IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
| Phone | +49 (0)631 / 205 3630 |
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| castilho(at)sowi.uni-kl.de | |
| building | 57, Room 502 |
Curriculum Vitae
| since Jan 2016 | Senior scientific researcher at at the Cognitive and Developmental Psychology department, RPTU in Kaiserslautern (formerly TU Kaiserslautern) |
| 2015 | Doctoral Dissertation: Getting Ready to Read: Promoting Children´s Emergent Literacy through Shared Book Reading in a German Context (Dr. phil.) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lachmann |
| 2014 | Studentship (DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) |
| 2014 | Studentship (Landesforschungsinitiative - German Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate) |
| Jan 2012 - Mar 2012 | Research Stay at the ‘Child Language and Literacy Research Lab’, visiting Prof. Dr. Monique Sénéchal, Carleton University, Canada |
| 2012 | Studentship (Exzellenzstipendium) |
| 2010-2011 | Maternal leave |
| 2009- 2013 | Studentship (KAAD – Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer Dienst) |
| Oct 2009 - Dec 2015 | Research scientist at the Cognitive and Developmental Psychology department, University of Kaiserslautern |
| Apr 2006 - Jul 2007 | Interchange at Université D’Orleans - DEF (diplome d'etudes en langue Française) – France |
| Feb 2002 - Dec 2005 | Studies of Philosophy (Diplom) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - Curitiba/Brazil |
Areas of interest
- Children´s literacy development
- Shared book reading
- Perception of emotions in spoken language
Project grants
2017 - 2018 - Children's perception of emotion in spoken language - TU Kaiserslautern Nachwuchsring Individual Funding
Featured Publications
Wegner, T., Wesseling, P. B. C., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B., Allen, S. & Lachmann, T. Hearing emotions: The processing of prosody without semantics (in preparation).
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Conference presentations
TALKS
Wesseling, P. B. C., Lachmann, T. (2012). Aquisição e desenvolvimento da linguagem por meio de biblioteca e programa de leitura dialógica para crianças em idade pré-escolar. Congreso Iberoamericano de las Lenguas en la Educación y en la Cultura / IV Congreso Leer.es. Salamanca, España, 5 al 7 de septiembre de 2012.
POSTERS
Wegner, T., Wesseling, P. B. C., Shakuf, V., Ben-David, B., Allen, S. & Lachmann, T. (2017). Hearing emotions: The processing of prosody without semantics. 59. Conference of Experimental Psychologists - TeaP, Dresden, Germany.
Wesseling, P. B. C., Christmann, C. A., & Lachmann, T. (2016). Shared Book Reading Promotes Language Development and Grapheme Awareness in German Kindergarten. A longitudinal study. 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, Germany.
Wesseling, P. B. C., Christmann, C. A., & Lachmann, T. (2015). Effects of shared book reading on children´s expressive vocabulary and grapheme awareness. Reading in the Forest: From basic perception to higher-order cognition in reading and developmental dyslexia. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Wesseling, P. B. C., Christmann, C. A., & Lachmann, T. (2012). Förderung von Sprache und Vorläuferfähigkeiten des Schriftspracherwerbs durch Bibliothek und Dialogisches Buchanschauen in der Kindertagesstätte. 7. Interdisziplinäre Tagung über Sprachentwicklungsstörungen, Leipzig, Germany.
Wesseling, P. B. C., & Lachmann, T. (2012). Förderung von Sprache und Vorläuferfähigkeiten des Schriftspracherwerbs durch Bibliothek und Dialogisches Buchanschauen in der Kindertagesstätte. 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie , Bielefeld, Germany.