by rileya | Sep 28, 2016 | News
Congratulations to Marianne Dolan for being accepted into the University of Chicago’s College Research Fellows Program! Marianne started working in the Infant Learning and Development lab in June 2016 as an undergraduate research assistant. For the 2016-2017 academic...
by rileya | Aug 22, 2016 | News
You may not be surprised to learn that food preference is a social matter. What we choose to eat depends on more than just what tastes good or is healthful. People in different cultures eat different things, and within a culture, what you eat can signal something...
by rileya | Aug 22, 2016 | News
Infants develop expectations about what people prefer to eat, providing early evidence of the social nature through which humans understand food, according to a new study conducted at the University of Chicago. The study, published this month in the Proceedings of the...
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...
