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- IPR News, Northwestern – Disrupting Racism and Bias at Home, at School, and at Work
- Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study – How, and how early do we begin to ‘see’ race?
- UK Today News, Science Blog, & Neuroscience News – Infants Link Language and Cognition, Whether Language is Spoken or a Sign Language
- Northwestern News – How Listening to Language Boosts Infant Cognition
- Scientific American – Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter—but Not Birdsong—Help an Infant’s Brain Develop
- Scientific American – Culture Shapes How Infants View the Natural World
- The Wildlife Society – At Play, Native American Kids Show Deeper Ecological Knowledge
- DukeToday – Car, Stroller, Juice: Babies Understand When Words Are Related
- Northwestern News – Infants Are Able To Learn Abstract Rules Visually
- US News & World Report – Be Color-Brave With Your Kids
- New York Magazine – A Preverbal Baby is Way Smarter Than You Think
- NPR – Humans Are Animals, Too
- The Huffington Post – The ‘Word Gap’ Takes Root in Infancy; So Too Should Our Efforts to Close It
- Scientific American – How Cultural Differences Affect Autism Diagnoses
- NPR – Enough With Baby Talk; Infants Learn From Lemur Screeches, Too
- Scientific American – Infants Use Verbs They Know to Learn New Nouns
- Northwestern Alumni Magazine – A Cognitive Psychologist Probes How Babies Think
- Time – Who Needs Nouns? How Toddlers Learn to Speak
- Science Daily – Understanding How Infants Acquire New Words Across Cultures
- NBC News – Human baby brains are wired to hear the call of the lemur
- Northwestern News – Nouns before verbs? New research agenda could help shed light on early language, cognitive development
- Daily Mail – Talk to your baby (using real words)
- Science Daily – Words Influence Infants’ Cognition from First Months of Life
- Psychology Today – Kids think humans are special
- Huffington Post – How the Baby Brain Differentiates between Humans and Animals