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Learning About Race
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Racial awareness and bias begin early: Developmental entry points, challenges, and a call to action

Waxman, S.R.

2021
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Perspectives on Psychological Science
2021
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Which acoustic features support the language-cognition link in infancy: A machine-learning approach

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

2021
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Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2021
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Sign language, like spoken language, promotes object categorization in young hearing infants

Novack, M.A., Brentari, Diane, Goldin-Meadow, S. & Waxman, S.R.

2021
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Cognition
2021
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Developmental changes in auditory-evoked neural activity underlie infants’ links between language and cognition

Woodruff Carr, K., Perszyk, D.R., Norton, E.S., Voss, J.L., Poeppel, D. & Waxman, S.R.

2021
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Developmental Science
2021
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants

Woodruff Carr, K., Perszyk, D.R. & Waxman, S.R.

2021
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PLOS ONE
2021
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

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

Luchkina, E. & Waxman, S.R.

2021
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PLOS ONE
2021
Cognitive Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Does human touch facilitate object categorization in 6-to-9-month-old infants?

Kadlaskar, G., Waxman, S.R. & Seidl, A.

2020
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Brain Sciences
2020
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

An object lesson: Objects, non-objects, and the power of conceptual construal in adjective extension

LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2020
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Language Learning and Development
2020
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About Race
Infant (1-2 years)

Naming guides on how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects

LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2020
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Tracing culture in children’s thinking: A socioecological framework in understanding nature (Rastreando la cultura en el pensamiento infantil: una socioecología para comprender la naturaleza)

Taverna, A.S., Medin, D.L. & Waxman, S.R.

2020
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Journal for the Study of Education and Development: Infancia y Aprendizaje
2020
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Two-year-olds consolidate verb meanings during a nap

He, A.X., Huang, S., Waxman, S.R. & Arunachalam, S.

2020
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Cognition
2020
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Quantifying sources of variability in infant research using the infant directed-speech preference

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

2020
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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
2020
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Early lexical acquisition in the Wichi language

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

2020
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Journal of Child Language
2020
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Crying helps, but being sad doesn't: Infants constrain nominal reference using known verbs, not known adjectives

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

2019
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Cognition
2019
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Becoming human: Human infants link language and cognition, but what about non-human great apes?

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

2019
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
2019
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Social-ecological relations among animals serve as a conceptual framework among the Wichi

Baiocchi, M.C., Waxman, S.R., Pérez É.M., Pérez A. & Taverna A.

2019
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Cognitive Development
2019
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Novel labels modify visual attention in 2-year-old children

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

2019
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2019
Learning About Race
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Bias at the intersection of race and gender: Evidence from preschool-aged children

Perszyk, D.R., Lei, R.F., Bodenhausen, G.V., Richeson, J.A., & Waxman, S.R.

2019
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Developmental Science
2019
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Infants’ advances in speech perception shape their earliest links between language and cognition

Perszyk, D.R. & Waxman, S.R.

2019
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Scientific Reports
2019
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Studying the real-time interpretation of novel noun and verb meanings in young children

de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Trueswell, J., Waxman, S.R. & Christophe, A.

2019
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Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Defining the role of language in infants’ object categorization with eye-tracking paradigms

LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2019
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Journal of Visualized Experiments
2019
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

A little labeling goes a long way: Semi-supervised learning in infancy

LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2018
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Developmental Science
2018
Cognitive Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Very young infants learn abstract rules in the visual modality

Ferguson, B., Franconeri, S. & Waxman, S.R.

2018
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PLoS ONE
2018
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Children’s play with a forest diorama as a window into ecological cognition

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

2017
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Journal of Cognition and Development
2017
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Linking language and cognition in infancy

Perszyk, D.R., & Waxman, S.R.

2017
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Annual Review of Psychology
2017