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2009

Patricia K. Kuhl. Social Media's Effect on Learning, By Maureen Scarpelli, The Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2009.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. New 'science of learning' could reinvent teaching techniques, By Dan Vergano, USA Today, July 22, 2009.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. Unraveling how kids become bilingual so easily, By The Associated Press, MSNBC, July 20, 2009.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people, By Joel Schwarz, Eurekalert, July 16, 2009.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. Being Human in a Digital World, Live From the Aspen Ideas Festival: Day 2, The Brian Lehrer Show, July 3, 2009.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Aesthetics and the Infant Mind, CARTA: Art and Aesthetics in Infants and Animals, Introduced by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Pasteur Institute, UCSD-TV, June 25, 2009.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. Bezos Family Foundation Endows Chair for Early Childhood Learning, by Candice Douglass, University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences, May 7, 2009.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Six in UW community named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. University Week, April 23, 2009.

Zhang, Y., Kuhl, P. K., Imada, T., Iverson, P., Pruitt, J., Stevens, E., Kawakatsu, M., Tohkura, Y., & Nemoto, I. (2009). Neural signatures of phonetic learning in adulthood: A magnetoencephalography study. Neuroimage, 46, 226-240.

2008

Meltzoff, A. N. & Brooks, R. (2008). Self-experience as a mechanism for learning about others: A training study in social cognition. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1257-1265.

Sommerville, J, Crane, C & Hildebrand, E. Psychologists show experience may be the best teacher for infants, by Joel Schwarz. University Week, October 2, 2008.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Rechele Brooks. Infants have social sightlines, by Bruce Bower. Science News , September 27, 2008.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Rechele Brooks. Baby Eyes Are Taking In The World, Applying Self-experience To Other People. Science Daily , September 22, 2008.

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew N. Meltzoff. Raising a little genius, by Harry Hoffman. Seattle Times, April 25, 2008.

Patricia K. Kuhl, Andrew N. Meltzoff & Toshiaki Imada. Life Sciences Fund grants awards to launch health research. EurekAlert, April 17, 2008.

Andrew Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Seeds of Compassion with the Dalai Lama: The Scientific Basis for Compassion - Live Event. UWTV, April 11, 2008.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff & Rebecca Williamson. Scientists to share insights into compassion with the Dalai Lama, by Janet I. Tu. Seattle Times, April 10, 2008.

2007

Andrew N. Meltzoff.  Birth-to-5 crucial years for learning, by Isolde Raftery. The Columbian, September 26, 2007.

F. J. Zimmerman, D. A. Christakis & Andrew N. Meltzoff (2007). Associations between Media Viewing and Language Development in Children Under Age 2 Years. Journal of Pediatrics, 151, 364-368.

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew Meltzoff.  Seattle draws top minds, big money to study of infant brains, by Linda Thomas.  Puget Sound Business Journal, July 27, 2007.

F. J. Zimmerman, D. A. Christakis & Andrew N. Meltzoff (2007). Television and DVD/Video Viewing in Children Younger Than 2 Years. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 161, 473-479.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. Children With Autism Have Difficulty Recognizing Ordinary Words.  IMFAR, May, 2007.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff. Mirror Neurons:  How We Reflect on Behavior, by Eric Jaffe. The APS Observer, May, 2007.

Betty Repacholi & Andrew N. Meltzoff (2007). Toddlers engage in 'emotional eavesdropping' to guide their behavior. Child Development, 78, 503-521.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff & Rechele Brooks. The Amazing Gaze: Babies Learn by Looking, by Jan Faull. Seattle Times, March 24, 2007.

Patricia K. Kuhl, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, & Lindsay Klarman. For baby, the more languages, the better, by Robert Bazell. NBC Nightly News, January 3, 2007.
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2006

Patricia K. Kuhl, Toshiaki Imada, & Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola. New Insights into How Babies Talk, by Robert Bazell. NBC Nightly News, September 28, 2006.
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Imada, T, Zhang, Y., Cheour, M., Taulu, S., Ahonen, A., & Kuhl, P. K.. (2006) Infant speech perception activates Brocas area: a developmental magnetoencephalography study. NeuroReport, 17, 957-962.
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Atance, C. M., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2006) Preschoolers’ Current Desires Warp Their Choices for the Future. Psychological Science, 17, 583-587.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Born to Learn, by Patrick O'Callaghan. The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), June 25, 2006.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Using CD to Learn English? No, Human Interaction Matters. Press conference at the Hsin-Yi Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with invited talk. Broadcasting Corporation of China, June 12, 2006.

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew N. Meltzoff. Social Contact Fosters Child Language Development, by Ulrica Widsell. Swedish Metro (Stockholm, Sweden), June 1, 2006.

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl & Rechele Brooks. Grosse pläne für Kleine Köpfe. GEO, 37, 64-75.

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew N. Meltzoff. Want a brainier baby?, by Pamela Paul. Time, January 16, 2006.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Cells that read minds, by Sandra Blakeslee. The New York Times, January 10, 2006.

2005

Huebner, C. E. & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). Intervention to change parent-child reading style: A comparison of instructional methods. Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 296-313.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. The early years, by Robert Mak. King 5 News: Upfront with Robert Mak, December 18, 2005.
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Brooks, R. & Meltzoff, A. N. (2005). The development of gaze following and its relation to language, Developmental Science, 8, 535-543.
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Patricia K. Kuhl, Andrew N. Meltzoff & Rechele Brooks. Reading your baby's mind, by Pat Wingert and Martha Brant. Newsweek, August 15, 2005.

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl & Rechele Brooks. Big plans for little brains, by Trish Gura. Nature, 435, 1156-1158.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Infant science: A UW couple leads our new thinking about babies' amazing minds, by Paula Bock. The Seattle Times, March 6, 2005.

2004

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew N. Meltzoff. SRI International Collaborates with Leading Universities to Improve Educational Learning Environments; NSF-Funded Research Center to Focus on Innovative Learning Models. Business Wire, October 20, 2004.

Anahad O'Connor. In autism, new goal is finding it soon enough to fight it. The New York Times.

Greg Miller. Listen, baby. Science.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Weekday: How we learn, call in show hosted by Marcie Sillman. KUOW Public Radio, Seattle, Washington.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Talk of the Nation: Acoustics update. National Public Radio.

2003

Andrew N. Meltzoff. A special way of talking to baby prepares for lifetime of communication, by Jan Faull. The Seattle Times, November 15, 2003.

Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F. M., & Liu, H. M. (2003). Foreign-language experience: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 9096-9101.
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Andrew N. Meltzoff. Kids' talent for mimicry makes supervising what they see important, by Jan Faull. The Seattle Times, August 9, 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. I feel your pain (and joy): new theories about empathy, by Ann MacDonald. Dana Foundation Brain Work, July-August, 2003.

Jean Decety. L'empathie Ou l'émotion partagée [On shared emotion], by Jean Decety. Pour la Science, July 2003.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Socializing paves way for multilingual kids. HealthDay.com [syndicated to 26 additional online publications], July 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. A little empathy, please!, by Judy Foreman. The Boston Globe, July 29, 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Washington fertile ground for brain research, by Marietta Nelson. Bremerton Sun, 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Brain child [series of articles on child science and child development in Scripps-Howard newspapers around the United States]. Bremerton Sun, June 15, 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Emotion gets physical, by Laura Spinney. BioMedNet.com, May 28, 2003

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Repeat after me, by Bruce Bower. Sciencenews.org, May 24, 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Copycat kids, by Elizabeth Rusch. Parents, Parents.com, May 2003.

Patricia K. Kuhl, Huei-Mei Liu, Andrew N. Meltzoff, & Betty Repacholi. The Baby Human: To Think (Episodes 2 and 3 of a three-part documentary series). Discovery Health Channel.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Babies' brains little machines for learning, author says, by Debbie Cafazzo. Tacoma News Tribune, March 29, 2003.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Study examines neural correlates of sympathy, by E. Benson. APA Monitor on Psychology, American Psychological Association, March 2003.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Language learning dependent on human delivery, by Rael Martell. HealthNews.co.uk, London, England, February 19, 2003.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Le sentimente de sympathie vient d'etre carographie [The sentiment of sympathy has just been mapped]. Science & Vie, France, February 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Toddler triumphs, by Elizabeth Rusch. Parents, Parents.com, February 2003.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Les réseaux neuronaux de la sympathie [The sympathy network in the brain], by Ludovic Dupin. Biofutur, France, February 2003.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. How babies learn about their world, The Parents Journal Radio Series, Parentsjournal.com, January 2003.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Early learning [public radio news report], by Jennifer Wing. KPLU, KPLU.org, Seattle.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Learning from babies, produced by Orrin Schonfeld. ScienCentral News, ScienCentral.com.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Live learning, by Orrin Schonfeld and Karen Lurie. ScienCentral News, ScienCentral.com.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Weekday: Teaching language to children, call-in show hosted by Steve Scher. KUOW Public Radio, Seattle, Washington.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Surprising discovery about how babies learn language, by Micki Flowers. KIRO-TV News, Kirotv.com, Seattle, washington [syndicated to CBS affiliate stations].

Patricia K. Kuhl. Sprachbegabte babys [Language-talented babies]. Der Spiegel, derspiegel.de, Germany.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Researchers learning about language learning, by Joel Schwarz. University Week, University of Washington.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Language learning dependent on human delivery, by Rael Martell. HealthNews.co.uk, London, England, February 19, 2003.

2002

Patricia K. Kuhl & Andrew N. Meltzoff. Journey to the center of the brain. Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, Santa Fe Institute, Winter 2002.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Sympathetic view. The Weekend Australian, Sydney, Australia, December 7, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff & Patricia K. Kuhl. Forscherdrang im Kinderwagen [Researchers look to the stroller], by Donata Elschenbroich. Die Zeit (Berlin, Germany), November 21, 2002.

Rechele Brooks & Andrew N. Meltzoff (2002). The importance of eyes: How infants interpret adult looking behavior. Developmental Psychology, 38, 958-966.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. The evidence speaks well of bilingualism's effect on kids, by Judy Foreman. The Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Two tongues better than one, by Judy Foreman. The Boston Globe, September 10, 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Strange but true, by Bill Sones and Richard Sones, Ph.D. (science Q & A column with brief about infants and linguistics). The Richmond Times, Virginia, September 5, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Bright young things: Not just a pretty face, by Maureen Freely. The Observer, London, England, September 1, 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Tot talk, by Sandra Y. Lee. Child Magazine, August 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Baby brain power dazzles researchers, by Mary Lane Gallagher. The Bellingham Herald, August 25-27, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Learning is an everyday part of childs play, by Mary Lane Gallagher. The Bellingham Herald, August 25-27, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Education reform zeroes in on preschool programs, by Mary Lane Gallagher. The Bellingham Herald. August 25-27, 2002.

Colleen Huebner. Getting a head start, by Lee Hochberg. The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Public Broadcasting System (PBS), July 5, 2002.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Brain function linked to sympathy, Surgery Door, surgerydoor.co.uk, London, England, June 12, 2002

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Falling in love, by Stacey Felsen. Parents Magazine/Baby special issue, June 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Parents, vous êtes le mellieur jouet jamais inventé pour votre bébé [Parents, you are the best toy ever invented for your baby]. Bébé-Femme Actuelle (French parenting magazine), May 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Going ga-ga, by Deborah Smith. Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, May 24, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Random samples: Wordless memories, by Christian Heuss. Science, May 17, 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Inside the world of autism, by J. Madeline Nash. Time Magazine, May 6, 2002.

Pickering, S., & Repacholi, B. (2002). Modifying children's gender-typed musical instrument preferences: The effects of gender and age. Sex Roles, 45, 623-643.
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Patricia K. Kuhl. Evening hours: Let's dance, by Bill Cunningham (news brief about Patricia K. Kuhl's Women and Science address at Rockefeller University). The New York Times, New York.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Spanish-language radio interview with Julio Sanchez, La FM, Miami, Florida, April 2, 2002.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade, Andrew N. Meltzoff. Knowing our imitations, by India Morrison. Trends in Cognitive Science, March 2002.

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Bart de Boer & Patricia Kuhl. Education: Mind Games, by Judith O'Reilly. Sunday Times, London, England, March 24, 2002.

Colette Bouchez. Baby, talk to me. Healthscout.com.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Baby talk does make sense. The Adelaide Advertiser. Adelaide, Australia.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Coochey-coo key to learning. The Hobart Mercury, Hobart, Australia.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Go gaga to stop. The Gold Coast Bulletin. Molendinar, Australia.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Babble makes babies speak up. Perth Sunday Times, Perth, Australia.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Baby talk is best way to develop. Western Mail & Echo, Cardiff, Wales.

Patricia K. Kuhl. The Baby's Brain and The Child's Brain, The Secret Life of the Brain documentary series, Public Broadcasting System (PBS), February 2002.

Jean Decety. La imitación es la base de la empatía [Imitation is the basis of empathy]. El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, January 25, 2002.

Jean Decety & Thierry Chaminade. Brain areas involved in imitation identified, by Joel Schwarz. University Week, University of Washington, Seattle, January 24, 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. A coochy, coochy coo could help your baby learn to speak. Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh, Scotland, January 3, 2002.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Mummy-wummy's baby-talk does make sense. London Daily Mail. London, England.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Baby talk helps children learn to speak, by John von Radowitz. British Press Association wire story, London, England.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Hellooooo baaay-beee: Ickle computer like silly mummy's vowel sounds, by Eugenie Samuel. New Scientist.

Andrew N. Meltzoff. Scientific American Frontiers: Growing Up Different, with Alan Alda. Documentary series, Public Broadcasting System (PBS), January 2002.

De Boer, B., & Kuhl, P. K. (2001). Infant-directed vowels are easier to learn for a computer model. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 2703
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Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl & Betty Repacholi. Baby steps, by Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker, January 10, 2000.

Patricia K. Kuhl. Babies Learn Sounds of Language by 6 Months, by Sandra Blakeslee. New York Times, New York, February 4, 1992.

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