Special session: Dynamic interactions between visual experiences, actions and word learning

The primary aim of this special session is to inform the conference's interdisciplinary audience about the state-of-the-art in developmental studies of action and language interactions. Action and language develop in parallel, impacting each other, and as such, bootstrap action, social, and cognitive development. We will present recent empirical evidence on developmental dependencies between visual experiences and word learning, followed by discussion of potential implications of this research for embodied theories of action and language integration.