Psychology Faculty Profiles
Sandra R. Waxman, Ph.D.
Professor
Cognitive Psychology
Office: Swift 212
Phone: (847) 467-2293
E-mail: s-waxman@northwestern.edu
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Research Interests
Cognitive development; language and conceptual development in infancy and early childhood; acquisition of concepts, word-meaning, and reasoning; early inductive reasoning.
Early Linguistic and Conceptual Development (Project on Child Development) - This servies of studies addresses issues of early conceptual development, language development and the relation between them.
Biological Thought: A Cross Cultural View (Cross Cultural Biological Thought Research)- This series of studies addresses fundamental issues in the evolution of biological knowledge and reasoning, across cultures and across development.
Selected Publications
Norbury, H.M., Waxman, S. R., & Song H. (2008). Tight and loose are not created equal: An asymmetry underlying the representation of fit in English and Korean speakers. Cognition. 109: 316-325.
Gelman, S., Waxman, S., Kleinberg, F. (2008). The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations about Pictures and Objects. Cognitive Development. 23, 313-323.
Anggoro, F. K., Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L. (2008). Naming Practices and the Acquisition of Key Biological Concepts: Evidence from English and Indonesian. Psychological Science. 19(4), 314-319.
Booth, A.E. & Waxman, S.R. (2008). Taking Stock as Theories Take Shape. Developmental Science. 11(2), 185-194.
Waxman, S.R. (2008). All in Good Time: How do Infants Discover Distinct Types of Words and Map Them to Distinct Kinds of Meaning? in J. Colombo, P. McCardle & L. Freund (Eds.), Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models, and Research Directions. (pp. 99-118). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L. (2007). Experience and Cultural Models Matter: Placing firm limits on anthropocentrism. Human Development. 50(1), 23-30.
Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L. (2006). Core Knowledge, Naming and the Acquisition of the Fundamental (Folk)biological Concept of 'Alive'. In N. Miyake (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science, 53-55. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Waxman, S.R. & Lidz, J. (2006). Early Word Learning. In D. Kuhn & R. Siegler (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology, 6th Edition, Volume 2, (pp. 299-335). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Fulkerson, A. L., Waxman, S. R., & Seymour, J. M. (2006). Linking object names and object categories: Words (but not tones) facilitate object categorization in 6- and 12-month-olds. In Bamman, D., Magnitskaia, T., & Zaller, C. (Eds.) Supplement to the Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
