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Sandra R. Waxman

Professor

Northwestern University

Affiliations

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Psychology

School of Education and Social Policy

Higher Education Administration and Policy

Human Development and Social Policy

Learning Sciences

Learning and Organizational Change

Social and Economic Policy

Teaching, Learning, and Education

Sandra R. Waxman is currently serving as a Psychology Professor at Northwestern University.

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Northwestern University

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child development cognitive development language development cognitive science child language linguistics early childhood development language cognition developmental psychology psychology language acquisition early childhood language learning object categorization developmental science psycholinguistics child psychology semantics language comprehension animal cognition human cognition word learning cognitive psychology applied developmental psychology educational psychology interpretation experimental child psychology neonatology human development conceptual organization reading research young children conceptual development human infants psychological science avian biology nature cognitive linguistics lexical semantics primatology learning theory intergroup relations cultural psychology embryonic development primate behavior novel nouns novel adjectives object categories novel words preschool-aged children object naming living things early word learning young infants verb learning human relations syntactic structure bioacoustics race relations educational theory human-animal interactions concept formation science education semantic processing semantic learning nonverbal communication phonetic detail theory building reproducible research variant interpretation comparative psychology lexicography lexicon adolescence reasoning about action

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Infant Word Learning. Elsevier eBooks (2025)

language processing in the brainlanguage learningchild languageinfant word learninglanguage acquisitionlanguage developmentlanguagelanguage comprehension

Assessing 12-Month-Old Infants’ Ability to Attend to Occlusion Change-Detection Events in a Virtual Setting. Psychological applications and trends (2024)

Cecilia NamSandra Waxman

public healthchild developmentchange detectionchange-detection eventsvirtual settingneonatologymachine learningbehavioral sciences

Developmental Origin of a Language–Cognition Interface in Infants: Gateway to Advancing Core Knowledge?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2024)

Sandra R Waxman

cognitive developmentdevelopmental originlanguage-cognition interfacelanguage developmentcore knowledgelanguagebehavioral sciences

Fifteen-Month-Olds Can Learn Names of Unseen Objects in Their Absence. (2024)

Elena Luchkinasandra waxman

early childhood developmentchild developmentearly childhoodpsychologycognitive developmentlanguage acquisitionearly visionlanguage developmentcognitive scienceunseen objects

How Pervasive is Joint Attention? Mother‐Child Dyads From a Wichi Community Reveal a Different Form of “Togetherness”. Developmental Science (2024)

Andrea TavernaMigdalia PadillaSandra Waxman

developmental psychologymother-child dyadschild developmentwichi communitysociologycognitive developmentintergroup relationsdevelopmental biologyjoint attentiondevelopmental scienceapplied developmental psychologybehavioral sciences

Navigating Accent Variability: 24-Month-Olds Recognize Known Words Spoken in an Unfamiliar Accent but Require Additional Support to Learn New Words. Infant Behavior and Development (2024)

Alexander LaTourretteCynthia BlancoNaz Deniz AtikSandra R. Waxman

early childhood developmentdevelopmental psychologychild developmentlanguage learningunfamiliar accentearly childhoodchild languagelanguage adaptationforeign language acquisitioncognitive developmentspeech recognitionlanguage acquisitionlanguage developmentdevelopmental biologyaccent variabilitylanguage comprehension

Preschoolers Benefit From Sentential Context in Familiar‐ and Unfamiliar‐Accented Speech. Developmental Science (2024)

Naz Deniz AtikAlexander LaTourretteSandra R. Waxman

speech perceptionunfamiliar-accented speechearly childhood developmentdevelopmental psychologychild developmentsentential contextearly childhood educationearly childhoodchild languagecognitive developmentlanguage developmentdevelopmental biologydevelopmental sciencelanguage comprehension

Six-Month-Old Infants Use Cross-Modal Synchrony to Identify Novel Communicative Signals. Scientific Reports (2024)

Brock FergusonAlexander LaTourretteSandra R Waxman

language processing in the braincommunicationchild developmentearly childhood developmentspeech communicationearly childhoodchild languagecognitive developmentlanguage acquisitionchild psychologycross-modal synchronynovel communicative signalslanguage developmentsix-month-old infantscognitive sciencenonverbal communicationbehavioral sciences

The Link Between Non-Human Primate Vocalizations and Cognition is Not Constrained by Maturation Alone: Evidence From Healthy Preterm Infants. Cognition (2024)

Kali Woodruff CarrSandra R Waxman

child developmenthealthy preterm infantsprimate behaviorcognitive developmentnon-human primate vocalizationscognitive sciencecognition

A Principled Link Between Object Naming and Representation is Available to Infants by Seven Months of Age. Scientific Reports (2023)

Alexander LaTourretteDana Michelle ChanSandra R. Waxman

object namingearly childhood developmentchild developmentcognitive developmentneonatologycognitive science

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Sandra R. Waxman

Professor

Northwestern University

Affiliations

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Psychology

School of Education and Social Policy

Higher Education Administration and Policy

Human Development and Social Policy

Learning Sciences

Learning and Organizational Change

Social and Economic Policy

Teaching, Learning, and Education

Sandra R. Waxman is currently serving as a Psychology Professor at Northwestern University.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Sandra R. Waxman

Northwestern University

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Infant Word Learning. Elsevier eBooks (2025)

language processing in the brainlanguage learningchild languageinfant word learninglanguage acquisitionlanguage developmentlanguagelanguage comprehension

Assessing 12-Month-Old Infants’ Ability to Attend to Occlusion Change-Detection Events in a Virtual Setting. Psychological applications and trends (2024)

Cecilia NamSandra Waxman

public healthchild developmentchange detectionchange-detection eventsvirtual settingneonatologymachine learningbehavioral sciences

Developmental Origin of a Language–Cognition Interface in Infants: Gateway to Advancing Core Knowledge?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2024)

Sandra R Waxman

cognitive developmentdevelopmental originlanguage-cognition interfacelanguage developmentcore knowledgelanguagebehavioral sciences

Fifteen-Month-Olds Can Learn Names of Unseen Objects in Their Absence. (2024)

Elena Luchkinasandra waxman

early childhood developmentchild developmentearly childhoodpsychologycognitive developmentlanguage acquisitionearly visionlanguage developmentcognitive scienceunseen objects

How Pervasive is Joint Attention? Mother‐Child Dyads From a Wichi Community Reveal a Different Form of “Togetherness”. Developmental Science (2024)

Andrea TavernaMigdalia PadillaSandra Waxman

Navigating Accent Variability: 24-Month-Olds Recognize Known Words Spoken in an Unfamiliar Accent but Require Additional Support to Learn New Words. Infant Behavior and Development (2024)

Alexander LaTourretteCynthia BlancoNaz Deniz AtikSandra R. Waxman

Preschoolers Benefit From Sentential Context in Familiar‐ and Unfamiliar‐Accented Speech. Developmental Science (2024)

Naz Deniz AtikAlexander LaTourretteSandra R. Waxman

Six-Month-Old Infants Use Cross-Modal Synchrony to Identify Novel Communicative Signals. Scientific Reports (2024)

Brock FergusonAlexander LaTourretteSandra R Waxman

The Link Between Non-Human Primate Vocalizations and Cognition is Not Constrained by Maturation Alone: Evidence From Healthy Preterm Infants. Cognition (2024)

Kali Woodruff CarrSandra R Waxman

child developmenthealthy preterm infantsprimate behaviorcognitive developmentnon-human primate vocalizationscognitive sciencecognition

A Principled Link Between Object Naming and Representation is Available to Infants by Seven Months of Age. Scientific Reports (2023)

Alexander LaTourretteDana Michelle ChanSandra R. Waxman

object namingearly childhood developmentchild developmentcognitive developmentneonatologycognitive science

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