Professor Sandra Waxman, of the Department of Psychology, found that sign language, like spoken language, supports infant cognitive development.
In a groundbreaking new study to be published in October, Waxman and a team of researchers discovered that sign language …
Listening to language — human or otherwise — is known to boost infant cognition, but Cognitive Psychology Professor Sandra Waxman has identified the first evidence explaining how infants become so acutely attuned to human speech.
In a study published June …
The study “Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants” was published in PLOS ONE on March 11, 2021, in a collaboration between scientists in the departments of psychology at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and …
Myrna García, assistant professor of instruction in Latina and Latino Studies, and the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of the physical therapy and human movement sciences department at Feinberg School of Medicine will receive the Daniel Linzer Award for …
According to Northwestern University research, how an object is named directly relates to the likelihood a 12-month-old infant will remember its name.
Researchers named four distinct objects differently among groups of infants, aged 12 months, to test for future object …