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Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

When veps cry: Two-year-olds efficiently learn novel words from linguistic contexts alone

Ferguson, B., Graf, E. & Waxman, S.R.

2017
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Language Learning and Development
2017
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

362.051 a link between language and cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7-month-old infants' object categorization

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

2017
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Journal of Visualized Experiments
2017
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory-building

Frank, M., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J.K., Hannon, E.E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneton, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S.R. & Yurovsky, D.

2017
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Infancy
2017
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Be color-brave with your kids

Waxman, S.R., Richeson, J. & Rogers, L.O.

2017
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U.S. News & World Report
2017
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

A conceptual account of children’s difficulties extending adjectives across basic-level kinds

LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2017
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Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development
2017
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Maturation constrains the effect of exposure in linking language and thought: Evidence from healthy preterm infants

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

2016
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Developmental Science
2016
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Linking language and categorization in infancy

Ferguson, B. & Waxman, S.R.

2016
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Journal of Child Language
2016
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Naming influences 9-month-olds' identification of discrete categories along a perceptual continuum

Havy, M. & Waxman, S.R.

2016
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Cognition
2016
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Listening to the calls of the wild: The role of experience in linking language and cognition in young infants

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

2016
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Cognition
2016
Cognitive Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Young children learning from touch screens: Taking a wider view

Lovato, S.B. & Waxman, S.R.

2016
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Frontiers in Psychology
2016
Learning About the Natural World
Children (4-7 years)

"Inhabitants of the earth": Reasoning about folk biological concepts in Wichi children and adults

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

2016
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In Marshall, P
2016
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

How cultural differences affect autism diagnoses

Waxman, S.R.

2016
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Scientific American
2016
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Providing Flint’s children with the services they deserved

Waxman, S.R.

2016
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The Hill
2016
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy

Academia's 'Baby Penalty': Fathers and childless women in academia are three times more likely to secure tenure-track positions than are working mothers

Waxman, S.R.

2016
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U.S. News & World Report
2016
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

How early is infants’ attention to objects and actions shaped by culture? New evidence from 24-month-olds raised in the US and China

Waxman, S.R., Fu, X., Ferguson, B., Geraghty, K., Leddon, E., Liang, J. & Zhao, M.F.

2016
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Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology
2016
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

What the [beep]? Six-month-olds link novel communicative signals to meaning

Ferguson, B. & Waxman, S.R.

2016
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Cognition
2016
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Why early intervention funds cannot be sacrificed

Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Truthout
2015
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

The 'Word Gap' takes root in infancy; So too should our efforts to close it

Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Huffington Post
2015
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy

Native Americans should not be left out of Thanksgiving

Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Aljazeera America
2015
Cognitive Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Visual abstract rule learning by 3- and 4-month-old infants

Ferguson, B. & Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2015
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

The precision of 12-month-old infants’ link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months

Ferguson, B., Havy, M. & Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Frontiers in Psychology
2015
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds

Syrett, K., Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Language Learning and Development
2015
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Relations: Language, epistemologies, categories and concepts

Medin, D., Ojalehto, B., Waxman, S.R. & Bang, M.

2015
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The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts
2015
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Abandoning the 'theoretical apartheid' between nature and nurture: human infants hold the key

Waxman, S.R.

2015
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Social Anthropology
2015
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Listen up! Speech is for thinking during infancy

Vouloumanos, A. & Waxman, S.R.

2014
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2014