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Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals by Ferguson, Brock, LaTourrette, Alexander, Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Humans adopt non-linguistic signals, from smoke signals to Morse code, to communicate. This communicative flexibility emerges early: embedding novel sine-wave…”
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Semantic priming supports infants' ability to learn names of unseen objects by Luchkina, Elena, Waxman, Sandra R

“…Human language permits us to call to mind objects, events, and ideas that we cannot witness directly. This capacity rests upon abstract verbal reference: the…”
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A principled link between object naming and representation is available to infants by seven months of age by LaTourrette, Alexander, Chan, Dana Michelle, Waxman, Sandra R.

“…By their first birthdays, infants represent objects flexibly as a function of not only whether but how the objects are named. Applying the same name to a set…”
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What Paradox? Referential Cues Allow for Infant Use of Phonetic Detail in Word Learning by Fennell, Christopher T., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Past research has uncovered a surprising paradox: Although 14-month-olds have exquisite phonetic discrimination skills (e.g., distinguishing [b] from [d]),…”
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The prevalence of psoriatic arthritis in people with psoriasis by Ibrahim, G., Waxman, R., Helliwell, P. S.

“…Objective To determine the prevalence of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) using the ClASsification criteria for Psoriatic ARthritis (CASPAR) for classification…”
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Categorization in 3- and 4-Month-Old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones by Ferry, Alissa L., Hespos, Susan J., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Neonates prefer human speech to other nonlinguistic auditory stimuli. However, it remains an open question whether there are any conceptual consequences of…”
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Words (but not Tones) facilitate object categorization: Evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds by Fulkerson, Anne L., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Recent studies reveal that naming has powerful conceptual consequences within the first year of life. Naming distinct objects with the same word highlights…”
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Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds by Arunachalam, Sudha, Waxman, Sandra R.

“…When toddlers view an event while hearing a novel verb, the verb’s syntactic context has been shown to help them identify its meaning. The current work takes…”
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Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants by Ferry, Alissa L., Hespos, Susan J., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…Language is a signature of our species and our primary conduit for conveying the contents of our minds. The power of language derives not only from the…”
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Very young infants learn abstract rules in the visual modality by Ferguson, Brock, Franconeri, Steven L, Waxman, Sandra R

“…Abstracting the structure or 'rules' underlying observed patterns is central to mature cognition, yet research with infants suggests this far-reaching capacity…”
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Infants use known verbs to learn novel nouns: Evidence from 15- and 19-month-olds by Ferguson, Brock, Graf, Eileen, Waxman, Sandra R.

“…•We designed a new eyetracking task to study word learning at 19- and 15-months.•Can infants use known verbs to identify referents of novel…”
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Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants by Woodruff Carr, Kali, Perszyk, Danielle R, Waxman, Sandra R

“…Recent evidence reveals a precocious link between language and cognition in human infants: listening to their native language supports infants' core cognitive…”
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Young Children Learning from Touch Screens: Taking a Wider View by Lovato, Silvia B, Waxman, Sandra R

“…Touch screen devices such as smartphones and tablets are now ubiquitous in the lives of American children. These devices permit very young children to engage…”
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Emissions in the stream: estimating the greenhouse gas impacts of an oil and gas boom by Waxman, Andrew R, Khomaini, Achmad, Leibowicz, Benjamin D, Olmstead, Sheila M

“…The Shale Revolution has stimulated a large and rapid buildout of oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf and Southwest regions of the United States (US),…”
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Rhythm May Be Key to Linking Language and Cognition in Young Infants: Evidence From Machine Learning by Lau, Joseph C Y, Fyshe, Alona, Waxman, Sandra R

“…Rhythm is key to language acquisition. Across languages, rhythmic features highlight fundamental linguistic elements of the sound stream and structural…”
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Comparison of screening questionnaires to identify psoriatic arthritis in a primary-care population: a cross-sectional study by Coates, L.C., Savage, L., Waxman, R., Moverley, A.R., Worthington, S., Helliwell, P.S.

“…Summary Background Many questionnaires are available for assessment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), but there is little evidence comparing them. Objectives To…”
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Anthropocentrism is not the first step in children's reasoning about the natural world by Herrmann, Patricia, Waxman, Sandra R, Medin, Douglas L

“…What is the relation between human and nonhuman animals? As adults, we construe this relation flexibly, depending in part on the situation at hand. From a…”
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Development of a preliminary composite disease activity index in psoriatic arthritis by Mumtaz, Aizad, Gallagher, Phil, Kirby, Brian, Waxman, Robin, Coates, Laura C, Veale J, Douglas, Helliwell, Philip, FitzGerald, Oliver

“…To develop a preliminary composite psoriatic disease activity index (CPDAI) for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Five domains were assessed and specific…”
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Studying the Real-Time Interpretation of Novel Noun and Verb Meanings in Young Children by de Carvalho, Alex, Babineau, Mireille, Trueswell, John C, Waxman, Sandra R, Christophe, Anne

“…Decades of research show that children rely on the linguistic context in which novel words occur to infer their meanings. However, because learning in these…”
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Evaluation of an existing screening tool for psoriatic arthritis in people with psoriasis and the development of a new instrument: the Psoriasis Epidemiology Screening Tool (PEST) questionnaire by IBRAHIM, G. H, BUCH, M. H, LAWSON, C, WAXMAN, R, HELLIWELL, P. S

“…To evaluate an existing tool (the Swedish modification of the Psoriasis Assessment Questionnaire) and to develop a new instrument to screen for psoriatic…”
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