Herbert, Jane S.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding Published in PLoS One
2018	Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2017	What paves the way to conventional language? The predictive value of babble, pointing, and socioeconomic status Published in Child Development

Research Areas

Research Overview

A/Prof Herbert is a researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. She is the director of the Wollongong Infant Learning Lab (WILL) and leads the Family, Learning and Interaction (FLINT) research theme at Early Start. She leads an Early Years international research network as part of the University Global Partnership Network.

A/Prof Herbert’s primary interest is in the first 1000 days. Her research explores how maturation and environmental experiences impact on the developing brain and cognitive abilities during infancy and early childhood, and on understanding and supporting parental wellbeing from pregnancy onwards. Her current ARC funded project examines the relationship between motor development, memory, and communication during the first year of life. She is also working with community partners and families to develop guidance for parents and carers, librarians, and ECEC staff on supporting and promoting early literacy and numeracy experiences for 0-3 year olds.

In addition to conducting basic experimental research, A/Prof Herbert also works within multidisciplinary and international research teams on topics related to maternal and child health behaviours, how parents seek and share information in the digital world, and on early intervention programmes for children at risk of delayed development.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Available as Research Supervisor

Available for Collaborative Projects

Head Of

Family, Learning and Interaction (FLINT) Research at Early Start Theme Leader
Wollongong Infant Learning Lab Director

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A New 3-Day Standardized Eyeblink Conditioning Protocol to Assess Extinction Learning From Infancy to Adulthood Published In Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2020	Nutrition information in pregnancy: Where do women seek advice and has this changed over time? Published In Nutrition and Dietetics
2019	A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding Published In PLoS One
2019	Remembering in the Context of Internal States: The Role of Sleep for Infant Memory Published In Child Development Perspectives
2019	Sleep-dependent selective imitation in infants Published In Journal of Sleep Research
2018	Changes in infant visual attention when observing repeated actions Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2018	Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Published In Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2018	There’s a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again Published In The Conversation
2017	What paves the way to conventional language? The predictive value of babble, pointing, and socioeconomic status Published In Child Development
2016	Gist extraction and sleep in 12-month-old infants Published In Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
2016	Naps promote flexible memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2016	The relationship between prior night's sleep and measures of infant imitation Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2016	The role of verbal labels on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age Published In Infant Behavior and Development

2015	Junior KICk-OFF – developing formal structured diabetes education within an informal learning environment for children aged 4-11 years Published In Pediatric Diabetes
2015	Sleep after learning enhances flexibility of memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2015	Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2014	Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2013	Eye tracking infants: investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory Published In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
2013	Infant interest in their mother's face is associated with maternal psychological health Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2013	Recent advances in early memory development: research on typical and atypical children Published In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
2013	Supporting early vocabulary development: what sort of responsiveness matters Published In IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

2012	Exploring patterns of visual attention during learning Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2012	Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: the role of the social and physical context Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2011	Do voices and previous experiences mediate infant attention to faces? Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2011	Experience prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2011	Infant imitation from televised peer and adult models Published In Infancy
2011	Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy Published In PLoS One
2011	The effect of language cues on infants' representational flexibility in a deferred imitation task Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2011	Visual recognition memory across contexts Published In Developmental Science
2010	The role of demonstrator familiarity and language cues on infant imitation from television Published In Infant Behavior and Development

Chapter

Year	Title
2014	The development of children’s scepticism about advertising Published In Advertising to Children: New Issues and New Media Publisher London, United Kingdom
2010	Ontogeny of multiple memory systems: eyeblink conditioning in rodents and humans Published In Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience Publisher New York, United States

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2015	An RCT to test the causal role of caregiver contingent talk in the language learning of high and low SES infants Published In 2015 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2015	The role of caregiver responsiveness in early language development: evidence from video and LENA™ recordings Published In 2015 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2014	Does prior sleep facilitate the encoding of new information in 6- and 12-month-olds? Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	Infant sleep and maternal well-being: associations at 6 and 12 months after birth Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	Naps enhance declarative memory in 6- and 12-month-old infants Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	The relation between caregiver contingent talk, SES and language learning: an intervention study Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2013	Pre-linguistic predictors of early vocabulary development Published In 2013 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2013	Pre-linguistic vocal and gestural predictors of conventional word learning Published In BCCCD 2013 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development Program and Abstracts
2013	Supporting early vocabulary development: what sort of responsiveness matters? Published In BCCCD 2013 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development Program and Abstracts
2012	Are we looking at the same thing? Eye-tracking infants and adults during an imitation demonstration Published In 18th International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS)
2012	Explaining individual differences in early vocabulary development: a longitudinal study from 9 to 18 months Published In 18th International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS)
2012	Where do infants look? Eye-tracking an imitation demonstration Published In 2012 British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference
2011	Are infant looking patterns during learning related to their memory performance? Published In 2011 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2011	Why don't young infants generalise memory across contexts? Published In 5th International Conference on Memory ICOM-5 Abstracts
2010	Age and experience related changes in infants’ imitation from peer and adult models Published In XVII International Conference for Infant Studies
2010	Are two heads better than one? The impact of demonstrators on early imitation Published In XVII International Conference for Infant Studies
2010	The relationship between infant interest in mother and stranger faces, bonding and maternal psychological health: an experimental study Published In Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology conference

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020	A Good Start in Life for Young Children: Reducing Vulnerability and Health Inequity Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Preventative and Public Health Research
2018 - 2020	Ready, steady, go: Infant motor development and cognition Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2016	While you were sleeping: nap-dependent emotional memory processing in infants Awarded by: Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand) Funding Scheme: Grant

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

I am happy to supervise doctorate and master research on topics related to well-being during pregnancy, parent-infant interactions, early learning and memory, infant cognition, literacy and numeracy in the home environment, and parenting and child development in a digital world.

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Help Seeking in the Over 55s for Common Mental Health Symptoms and Cognitive Complaints	Blanch, Sheree
Doctor of Philosophy	Social Factors and Schizotypy	Mison, Erin
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Beneath the bump: Women's experiences of mental health and bonding during pregnancy.	McNamara, Josie
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Maternal Anxiety, Parent-Child Interactions, and the Development of Early Numeracy Skill.	Baltoski, Meagan
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	`Remember the Time¿.¿: Parent-child Reminiscing and Associations with Psychopathology	Russell, Sophie
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring parent-child shared book reading in the first three years of life: Characteristics and language outcomes	Ho, Cheryl Ho Jialing
Doctor of Philosophy	Mindfulness and Behavioural Parent Interventions	Donovan, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Investigating the Role of Paternal Behaviour, Attachment Security and Mental Health on Child Social-Emotional Development.	Hofmeier, Amy
Master of Philosophy - ASSH	Measuring psychosocial risk factors associated with poorer mental health and parenting outcomes for fathers in the perinatal period.	Schilder, Suzanne

Reviewer Of

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Editorial Board (Journal) 2020 -
Infancy Editorial Board (Journal) 2018 -
Infant and Child Development Editorial Board (Journal) 2016 -

Professional Service Activities

UOW Human Research Ethics Committee (Social Sciences) 2018 -

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Developmental Psychology, University of Otago, Psychology 1997 - 1999
B.A. in Psychology, University of Otago, Psychology, with Honours (distinction) 1992 - 1996

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding Published in PLoS One
2018	Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2017	What paves the way to conventional language? The predictive value of babble, pointing, and socioeconomic status Published in Child Development

Research Areas

Research Overview

A/Prof Herbert is a researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. She is the director of the Wollongong Infant Learning Lab (WILL) and leads the Family, Learning and Interaction (FLINT) research theme at Early Start. She leads an Early Years international research network as part of the University Global Partnership Network.

A/Prof Herbert’s primary interest is in the first 1000 days. Her research explores how maturation and environmental experiences impact on the developing brain and cognitive abilities during infancy and early childhood, and on understanding and supporting parental wellbeing from pregnancy onwards. Her current ARC funded project examines the relationship between motor development, memory, and communication during the first year of life. She is also working with community partners and families to develop guidance for parents and carers, librarians, and ECEC staff on supporting and promoting early literacy and numeracy experiences for 0-3 year olds.

In addition to conducting basic experimental research, A/Prof Herbert also works within multidisciplinary and international research teams on topics related to maternal and child health behaviours, how parents seek and share information in the digital world, and on early intervention programmes for children at risk of delayed development.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country

Head Of

Family, Learning and Interaction (FLINT) Research at Early Start Theme Leader
Wollongong Infant Learning Lab Director

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	A New 3-Day Standardized Eyeblink Conditioning Protocol to Assess Extinction Learning From Infancy to Adulthood Published In Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2020	Nutrition information in pregnancy: Where do women seek advice and has this changed over time? Published In Nutrition and Dietetics
2019	A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding Published In PLoS One
2019	Remembering in the Context of Internal States: The Role of Sleep for Infant Memory Published In Child Development Perspectives
2019	Sleep-dependent selective imitation in infants Published In Journal of Sleep Research
2018	Changes in infant visual attention when observing repeated actions Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2018	Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Published In Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2018	There’s a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again Published In The Conversation
2017	What paves the way to conventional language? The predictive value of babble, pointing, and socioeconomic status Published In Child Development
2016	Gist extraction and sleep in 12-month-old infants Published In Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
2016	Naps promote flexible memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2016	The relationship between prior night's sleep and measures of infant imitation Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2016	The role of verbal labels on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age Published In Infant Behavior and Development

2015	Junior KICk-OFF – developing formal structured diabetes education within an informal learning environment for children aged 4-11 years Published In Pediatric Diabetes
2015	Sleep after learning enhances flexibility of memory retrieval in 12-month-old infants Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2015	Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Infant and adult visual attention during an imitation demonstration Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2014	Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2013	Eye tracking infants: investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory Published In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
2013	Infant interest in their mother's face is associated with maternal psychological health Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2013	Recent advances in early memory development: research on typical and atypical children Published In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
2013	Supporting early vocabulary development: what sort of responsiveness matters Published In IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

2012	Exploring patterns of visual attention during learning Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2012	Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: the role of the social and physical context Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2011	Do voices and previous experiences mediate infant attention to faces? Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2011	Experience prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy Published In Developmental Psychobiology
2011	Infant imitation from televised peer and adult models Published In Infancy
2011	Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy Published In PLoS One
2011	The effect of language cues on infants' representational flexibility in a deferred imitation task Published In Infant Behavior and Development
2011	Visual recognition memory across contexts Published In Developmental Science
2010	The role of demonstrator familiarity and language cues on infant imitation from television Published In Infant Behavior and Development

Chapter

Year	Title
2014	The development of children’s scepticism about advertising Published In Advertising to Children: New Issues and New Media Publisher London, United Kingdom
2010	Ontogeny of multiple memory systems: eyeblink conditioning in rodents and humans Published In Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience Publisher New York, United States

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2015	An RCT to test the causal role of caregiver contingent talk in the language learning of high and low SES infants Published In 2015 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2015	The role of caregiver responsiveness in early language development: evidence from video and LENA™ recordings Published In 2015 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2014	Does prior sleep facilitate the encoding of new information in 6- and 12-month-olds? Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	Infant sleep and maternal well-being: associations at 6 and 12 months after birth Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	Naps enhance declarative memory in 6- and 12-month-old infants Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2014	The relation between caregiver contingent talk, SES and language learning: an intervention study Published In International Conference for Infant Studies
2013	Pre-linguistic predictors of early vocabulary development Published In 2013 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2013	Pre-linguistic vocal and gestural predictors of conventional word learning Published In BCCCD 2013 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development Program and Abstracts
2013	Supporting early vocabulary development: what sort of responsiveness matters? Published In BCCCD 2013 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development Program and Abstracts
2012	Are we looking at the same thing? Eye-tracking infants and adults during an imitation demonstration Published In 18th International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS)
2012	Explaining individual differences in early vocabulary development: a longitudinal study from 9 to 18 months Published In 18th International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS)
2012	Where do infants look? Eye-tracking an imitation demonstration Published In 2012 British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference
2011	Are infant looking patterns during learning related to their memory performance? Published In 2011 Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development
2011	Why don't young infants generalise memory across contexts? Published In 5th International Conference on Memory ICOM-5 Abstracts
2010	Age and experience related changes in infants’ imitation from peer and adult models Published In XVII International Conference for Infant Studies
2010	Are two heads better than one? The impact of demonstrators on early imitation Published In XVII International Conference for Infant Studies
2010	The relationship between infant interest in mother and stranger faces, bonding and maternal psychological health: an experimental study Published In Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology conference

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020	A Good Start in Life for Young Children: Reducing Vulnerability and Health Inequity Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Preventative and Public Health Research
2018 - 2020	Ready, steady, go: Infant motor development and cognition Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2016	While you were sleeping: nap-dependent emotional memory processing in infants Awarded by: Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand) Funding Scheme: Grant

Potential Supervision Topics

I am happy to supervise doctorate and master research on topics related to well-being during pregnancy, parent-infant interactions, early learning and memory, infant cognition, literacy and numeracy in the home environment, and parenting and child development in a digital world.

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Help Seeking in the Over 55s for Common Mental Health Symptoms and Cognitive Complaints	Blanch, Sheree
Doctor of Philosophy	Social Factors and Schizotypy	Mison, Erin
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Beneath the bump: Women's experiences of mental health and bonding during pregnancy.	McNamara, Josie
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Maternal Anxiety, Parent-Child Interactions, and the Development of Early Numeracy Skill.	Baltoski, Meagan
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	`Remember the Time¿.¿: Parent-child Reminiscing and Associations with Psychopathology	Russell, Sophie
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring parent-child shared book reading in the first three years of life: Characteristics and language outcomes	Ho, Cheryl Ho Jialing
Doctor of Philosophy	Mindfulness and Behavioural Parent Interventions	Donovan, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Investigating the Role of Paternal Behaviour, Attachment Security and Mental Health on Child Social-Emotional Development.	Hofmeier, Amy
Master of Philosophy - ASSH	Measuring psychosocial risk factors associated with poorer mental health and parenting outcomes for fathers in the perinatal period.	Schilder, Suzanne

Reviewer Of

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Editorial Board (Journal) 2020 -
Infancy Editorial Board (Journal) 2018 -
Infant and Child Development Editorial Board (Journal) 2016 -

Professional Service Activities

UOW Human Research Ethics Committee (Social Sciences) 2018 -

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy in Developmental Psychology, University of Otago, Psychology 1997 - 1999
B.A. in Psychology, University of Otago, Psychology, with Honours (distinction) 1992 - 1996

Credentials

Infant CLASS observer, 2019 - 2021
Toddler CLASS observer, 2019 - 2021

Awards And Honors

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Supervision , 2019

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-4531 (confirmed)

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Available for Collaborative Projects

Head Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Professional Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Credentials

Awards And Honors

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Head Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Professional Service Activities

Background

Education And Training

Credentials

Awards And Honors

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus