Recent News
Waxman named Stellenbosch Fellow
Sandra Waxman, study director at the Infant and Child Development Center, awarded fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in Stellenbosch South Africia.
How Listening to Language Boosts Infant Cognition
A study from our research center provides new insight into how the link to cognition becomes rapidly attuned to human speech in the infant brain.
Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter—but Not Birdsong—Help an Infant’s Brain Develop
At ICDC, we’re discovering what types of sounds boost infant cognition. Scientific American covers our new PLOS ONE publication.
Waxman and ICDC featured in racial equity proposals
Want to Close Racial Gaps, Advance Equity? Try These Policy Ideas.
IPR researchers’ data-driven suggestions seek to diminish inequities through federal policy proposals.
Babies on Netflix!
Have you seen the docuseries Babies on Netflix? It includes just the kind of work that you and your babies have made possible by visiting us! If you watch it, you’ll see Northwestern featured in one episode, with footage from our colleague Dr. Hespos’ lab this time!
Sandy Waxman co-PI on NIH Baby Toolbox Project
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded Northwestern a
grant to develop the “Baby Toolbox” an efficient and
comprehensive battery of neurodevelopmental measures for
use with children ages 1-42 months.
What do preschoolers think about race and gender?
A study from our research center highlights the importance of addressing social bias in children even before they have entered preschool or kindergarten.
Great work Drs Danielle Perszyk and Sandy Waxman!
We’re featured in this special edition of Time Magazine
Blog Articles
Learning Through Play
A Little Labeling Goes A Long Way
How Do Picture Books Shape Us?
Preterm Infants' Early Language Development
Listening to the Calls of the Wild
Blue, Green, or Nol?
Happy Giving Tuesday!
What's So Special About Language?
What Goes Together? - Young Infants and Abstract Visual Learning
Naming the Living Things
The Boy and the Balloon: How Do Toddlers Learn Verbs?
What Can Storytime Teach Us?
From Unseen Animals to Theoretical Physics, Humans Have a Unique Ability to Communicate Absent and Abstract Concepts
Human language not only allows us to share our thoughts about the world around us, but also to discuss what isn’t there.