by rileya | Aug 15, 2016 | News
Food choice can serve as a social shibboleth, whereby information about what an individual eats affords insight into her cultural background and social relationships. We provide evidence for an early-emerging system linking food preferences to social identity. Infants...
by rileya | Apr 14, 2016 | News
A groundbreaking new study by neuroscientists and developmental psychologists at the University of Chicago has identified a direct link between neural responses from the motor system and overt social behavior in infants. The April 2016 study, “Motor System Activation...
by rileya | Apr 11, 2016 | News
An innovative collaboration between neuroscientists and developmental psychologists that investigated how infants’ brains process other people’s action provides the first evidence that directly links neural responses from the motor system to overt social behavior in...
by rileya | Mar 14, 2016 | News
Being bilingual has some obvious advantages. Learning more than one language enables new conversations and new experiences. But in recent years, psychology researchers have demonstrated some less obvious advantages of bilingualism, too. For instance, bilingual...
by rileya | Jan 7, 2016 | News
The Center for Early Childhood Research was busy in 2015! We have so many exciting new studies to share with you. Check out what we have been up to in our yearly newsletter: https://uchicago.box.com/s/my7zm3s18hdugx9sj5c2g1qiuizsw523 Newsletter 2015 Picture_Page_01Our...