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Waxman named Stellenbosch Fellow

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.

Baby Listening

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.

Zebra Finch

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.

BLM Protest

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

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!

NIH Baby Toolbox

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.

Race and Gender Paper

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!

Time Magazine

We’re featured in this special edition of Time Magazine

Blog Articles

What Goes Together? - Young Infants and Abstract Visual Learning

What Goes Together? - Young Infants and Abstract Visual Learning

Language is pretty unique

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.