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As a developmental scientist,Professor Waxman considers human development, across ages and across cultures. Adopting a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, she focuses on infants’ and young children’s concepts, words, and reasoning. She is also dedicated to building bridges across traditional disciplinary boundaries to focus on pressing issues facing young children and their families.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Psychology, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
… → 1985
Psychology, MA, Johns Hopkins University
… → 1981
Occupational Therapy, BS, University of Pennsylvania
… → 1976
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Embracing heterogeneity within infant development to improve machine learning models of early learning
Waxman, S. R. (PD/PI)
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
7/31/24 → 7/30/26
Project: Research project
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Year 2 Option - Make Ready the NIH Baby Toolbox for End Users:
Gershon, R. (PD/PI), Blackwell, C. K. (Co-Investigator), Dworak, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Kaat, A. J. (Co-Investigator), LaForte, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Lai, J.-S. (Co-Investigator), Mansolf, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Novack, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Nowinski, C. J. (Co-Investigator), Pila, S. (Co-Investigator), Sivan, A. B. (Co-Investigator), Wakschlag, L. S. (Co-Investigator), Waxman, S. R. (Co-Investigator) & Yao, L. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9/28/23 → 8/31/25
Project: Research project
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Make Ready the NIH Baby Toolbox for End Users:
Gershon, R. (PD/PI), Gershon, R. (PD/PI), Blackwell, C. K. (Co-Investigator), Blackwell, C. K. (Co-Investigator), Dworak, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Dworak, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Kaat, A. J. (Co-Investigator), Kaat, A. J. (Co-Investigator), LaForte, E. M. (Co-Investigator), LaForte, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Lai, J.-S. (Co-Investigator), Lai, J.-S. (Co-Investigator), Mansolf, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Mansolf, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Novack, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Novack, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Nowinski, C. J. (Co-Investigator), Nowinski, C. J. (Co-Investigator), Pila, S. (Co-Investigator), Pila, S. (Co-Investigator), Sivan, A. B. (Co-Investigator), Sivan, A. B. (Co-Investigator), Wakschlag, L. S. (Co-Investigator), Wakschlag, L. S. (Co-Investigator), Waxman, S. R. (Co-Investigator), Waxman, S. R. (Co-Investigator), Yao, L. (Co-Investigator) & Yao, L. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9/28/23 → 8/31/25
Project: Research project
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Naming names: How, and how early, does object naming influence infants' fundamental object representations?
Waxman, S. R. (PD/PI)
9/1/23 → 8/31/26
Project: Research project
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Eyes-Have-It: Developing and Validating a Measure of Preschool Teachers' Implicit Racial Biases
Waxman, S. R. (PD/PI), Waxman, S. R. (PD/PI) & Waxman, S. R. (PD/PI)
Society for Research in Child Development Inc.
5/1/23 → 4/30/26
Project: Research project
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Developmental origin of a language-cognition interface in infants: Gateway to advancing core knowledge?
Waxman, S. R., Jun 27 2024, In: The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47, p. e145Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How pervasive is joint attention? Mother-child dyads from a Wichi community reveal a different form of “togetherness”
Taverna, A., Padilla, M. & Waxman, S., Sep 2024, In: Developmental Science. 27, 5, e13471.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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., Sep 2024, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 76, 101962.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar- and unfamiliar-accented speech
Atik, N. D., LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S. R., Sep 2024, In: Developmental Science. 27, 5, e13508.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals
Ferguson, B., LaTourrette, A. & Waxman, S. R., Dec 2024, In: Scientific reports. 14, 1, 27859.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference
Frank, M. C. (Creator), Alcock, K. J. (Creator), Arias-Trejo, N. (Creator), Aschersleben, G. (Creator), Baldwin, D. (Creator), Barbu, S. (Creator), Bergelson, E. (Creator), Bergmann, C. (Creator), Black, A. K. (Creator), Blything, R. (Creator), Böhland, M. P. (Creator), Bolitho, P. (Creator), Borovsky, A. (Creator), Brady, S. M. (Creator), Braun, B. (Creator), Brown, A. (Creator), Byers-Heinlein, K. (Creator), Campbell, L. E. (Creator), Cashon, C. (Creator), Choi, M. (Creator), Christodoulou, J. (Creator), Cirelli, L. K. (Creator), Conte, S. (Creator), Cordes, S. (Creator), Cox, C. (Creator), Cristia, A. (Creator), Cusack, R. (Creator), Davies, C. (Creator), de Klerk, M. (Creator), Delle Luche, C. (Creator), Dinakar, D. (Creator), Dixon, K. C. (Creator), Durier, V. (Creator), Durrant, S. (Creator), Fennell, C. (Creator), Ferguson, B. (Creator), Ferry, A. (Creator), Fikkert, P. (Creator), Flanagan, T. (Creator), Floccia, C. (Creator), Foley, M. (Creator), Fritzsche, T. (Creator), Frost, R. L. A. (Creator), Gampe, A. (Creator), Gervain, J. (Creator), Gonzalez-Gomez, N. (Creator), Gupta, A. (Creator), Hahn, L. E. (Creator), Hamlin, J. K. (Contributor), Hannon, E. E. (Creator), Havron, N. (Creator), Hay, J. (Creator), Hernik, M. (Creator), Höhle, B. (Creator), Houston, D. M. (Creator), Howard, L. H. (Creator), Ishikawa, M. (Creator), Itakura, S. (Creator), Jackson, I. (Creator), Jakobsen, K. V. (Creator), Jarto, M. (Creator), Johnson, S. P. (Creator), Junge, C. (Creator), Karadag, D. (Creator), Kartushina, N. (Creator), Kellier, D. J. (Creator), Keren-Portnoy, T. (Creator), Klassen, K. (Creator), Kline, M. (Creator), Ko, E.-S. (Creator), Kominsky, J. F. (Creator), Kosie, J. E. (Creator), Kragness, H. E. (Creator), Krieger, A. A. R. (Creator), Krieger, F. (Creator), Lany, J. (Creator), Lazo, R. J. (Creator), Lee, M. (Creator), Leservoisier, C. (Creator), Levelt, C. (Creator), Lew-Williams, C. (Creator), Lippold, M. (Creator), Liszkowski, U. (Creator), Liu, L. (Creator), Luke, S. G. (Creator), Lundwall, R. A. (Creator), Cassia, V. M. (Contributor), Mani, N. (Creator), Marino, C. (Creator), Martin, A. (Creator), Mastroberardino, M. (Creator), Mateu, V. (Creator), Mayor, J. (Creator), Menn, K. (Creator), Michel, C. (Creator), Moriguchi, Y. (Creator), Morris, B. (Creator), Nave, K. M. (Creator), Nazzi, T. (Creator), Noble, C. (Creator), Novack, M. A. (Creator), Olesen, N. M. (Creator), Orena, A. J. (Contributor), Ota, M. (Creator), Panneton, R. (Creator), Esfahani, S. P. (Creator), Paulus, M. (Creator), Pletti, C. (Creator), Polka, L. (Creator), Potter, C. (Creator), Rabagliati, H. (Creator), Ramachandran, S. (Creator), Rennels, J. L. (Creator), Reynolds, G. D. (Creator), Roth, K. C. (Creator), Rothwell, C. (Creator), Rubez, D. (Creator), Ryjova, Y. (Creator), Saffran, J. (Creator), Sato, A. (Creator), Savelkouls, S. (Creator), Schachner, A. (Creator), Schafer, G. (Creator), Schreiner, M. S. (Creator), Seidl, A. (Creator), Shukla, M. (Creator), Simpson, E. A. (Creator), Singh, L. (Creator), Skarabela, B. (Creator), Soley, G. (Creator), Sundara, M. (Creator), Theakston, A. (Creator), Thompson, A. (Creator), Trainor, L. J. (Creator), Trehub, S. E. (Creator), Trøan, A. S. (Creator), Tsui, A.S.-M. (Creator), Twomey, K. (Creator), Von Holzen, K. (Creator), Wang, Y. (Creator), Waxman, S. (Creator), Werker, J. F. (Creator), Wermelinger, S. (Creator), Woolard, A. (Creator), Yurovsky, D. (Creator), Zahner, K. (Creator), Zettersten, M. (Creator), Soderstrom, M. (Creator) & Alcock, K. J. (Creator), SAGE Journals, 2020
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4897020.v1, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Quantifying_Sources_of_Variability_in_Infancy_Research_Using_the_Infant-Directed-Speech_Preference/4897020/1
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