Publications

Abstract purple background with scattered white dots resembling stars in the night sky.
Search here to easily find articles by research topic, child's age or publication date.
FILTER BY:
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Clear all
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

From melody to meaning: The influence of humming and singing on infant cognition

Woodruff Carr, K., Vanden Bosch der Nederlandenm, C.M., Trainor, L., & Waxman, S.R. (in revision)

2025
|
NeuroMusic Conference
2025
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® language measures

Novak, M.A., Dworak, E., Han M.C.Y., Kaat, A.J., Utsinovich, V. Saffran, J., Frank, M.C., Waxman, S.R., & Gershon, R.C.

2025
|
Infant Behavior and Development
2025
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Infant word learning

Li, D., & Waxman, S.R. (in press).

2025
|
Reference Module in Social Sciences
2025
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time

ManyBabies Consortium with Waxman, S.R, and many others

2025
2025
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Catching up with iCatcher: Comparing analyses of infant eye tracking based on trained human coders and iCatcher+ automated gaze coding software

Luchkina, E., Simon, L.R., & Waxman, S.R.

2025
|
Behavior Research Methods
2025
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Semantic priming supports infants’ ability to learn names of unseen objects

Luchkina, E., & Waxman, S.R.

2025
|
PLOS One
2025
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals

Ferguson, B., LaTourrette, A., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Scientific Reports
2024
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Talking about the absent and the abstract: Referential communication in language and gesture

Luchkina, E., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Perspectives on Psychological Science
2024
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

The link between non-human primate vocalizations and cognition is not constrained by maturation alone: Evidence from healthy preterm infants

Woodruff Carr, K.W., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Cognition
2024
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words

LaTourrette, A., Blanco, C., Atik, N.D., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Infant Behavior and Development
2024
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Developmental origin of a language–cognition interface in infants: Gateway to advancing core knowledge?

Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2024
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar- and unfamiliar-accented speech

Atik, N.D., LaTourrette, A., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Developmental Science
2024
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

How pervasive is joint attention? Mother-child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”

Taverna, A., Padilla, M., & Waxman, S.R.

2024
|
Developmental Science
2024
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Longer looks for language: Novel labels lengthen fixation duration for 2-year-old children

LaTourrette, A.S., Novack, M.A., & Waxman, S.R.

2023
|
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2023
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

A principled link between object naming and representation is available to infants by seven months of age

LaTourrette, A.S., Chan, D.M., & Waxman, S.R.

2023
|
Scientific Reports
2023
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Twelve-month-olds can imagine objects they have never seen and learn their names

Luchkina, E., & Waxman, S.R.

2023
|
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2023
Learning About the Natural World
Children (4-7 years)

Perspective taking and psychological distance in children’s picture books: Differences between native and non-native authored books

Bang, M., Gurneau, J., Faber, L., Marin, A., Marin, M., Medin, D., Waxman, S.R., & Woodring, J.

2023
|
Sociocultural Explorations of Science Education
2023
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

From recognizing known words to learning new ones: Comparing online speech processing in typically developing and late-talking 2-year-olds

LaTourrette, A., Waxman, S.R., Wakschlag, L.S., Norton, E.S., & Weisleder, A.

2023
|
Journal of Speech Learning and Hearing Research
2023
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Sparse labels, no problems: Infant categorization under challenging conditions

LaTourrette, A., & Waxman, S.R.,

2022
|
Child Development
2022
Cognitive Development
Infant (0-1 years)

ManyBabies 3: A multi-lab study of infant algebraic rule learning

ManyBabies Consortium with Waxman, S.R, and many others (in revision)

2022
2022
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

I see what you are saying: Hearing infants’ visual attention and social engagement in response to spoken and sign language

Novack, M.A., Chan, D. & Waxman, S.R.

2022
|
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Rhythm may be key to linking language and cognition in young infants: Evidence from machine learning

Lau, J.C.Y., Fyshe, A., & Waxman, S.R.

2022
|
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Hands on: Nonverbal communication in Native and non-Native American parent-child dyads during informal learning

Novack, M.A., Standley, M., Bang, M., Washinawotok, K., Medin, D., & Waxman, S.R.

2022
|
Developmental Psychology
2022
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Children (4-7 years)

Humans (really) are animals: Picture-book reading influences 5-year-old urban children’s construal of the relation between humans and non-human animals

Waxman, S.R., Herrmann, P., Woodring, J., & Medin, D.L.

2021
|
The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)
2021
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Acquiring verbal reference: The interplay of cognitive, linguistic, and general learning capacities

Luchkina, E., & Waxman, S.R.

2021
|
Infant Behavior and Development
2021