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Overview

Nameera Akhtar is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences and neuroscience, with notable contributions to education, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, sociology, political science, and health.

Their work encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Child development and digital technology
  • Autism spectrum disorder research
  • Family and disability support research
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy
  • Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
  • Middle East and Rwanda conflicts
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern studies

Akhtar has published research in multiple venues such as Disability & Society, Autism in Adulthood, PLoS ONE, Autism, and Neurodiversity. Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Still Infantilizing Autism? An Update and Extension of Stevenson et al. (2011)" (2022) in Autism in Adulthood
  • "Short report: Can autie-biographies influence non-autistic readers' views of autism and autistic people?" (2024) in Neurodiversity

Other related publications coauthored with frequent collaborators focus on autism perspectives and social connection. Some of these include studies by colleagues such as Janette Dinishak, Noa Lewin, Vikram K. Jaswal, and Dr. Muhammad Nasir.

Frequent co-authors of Akhtar include:

  • Janette Dinishak
  • Dr. Muhammad Nasir
  • Noa Lewin
  • Jennifer L. Frymiare
  • Vikram K. Jaswal

Their interdisciplinary approach integrates qualitative and quantitative studies addressing autism and related neurodiversity topics. This includes examining media coverage, autobiographical influences on perception, and lived experiences within family contexts.

Best Publications

  • Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions

    Malinda Carpenter;Nameera Akhtar;Michael Tomasello

  • Directive interactions and early vocabulary development: the role of joint attentional focus.

    Nameera Akhtar;Frances Dunham;Philip J. Dunham

  • Learning words through overhearing.

    Nameera Akhtar;Jennifer Jipson;Maureen A. Callanan

  • The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning

    Nameera Akhtar;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children's Productivity with Word Order and Verb Morphology.

    Nameera Akhtar;Michael Tomasello

  • Being versus appearing socially uninterested: Challenging assumptions about social motivation in autism

    Vikram K. Jaswal;Nameera Akhtar

  • Acquiring basic word order: evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure

    Nameera Akhtar

  • The robustness of learning through overhearing

    Nameera Akhtar

  • Two-Year-Olds Use Pragmatic Cues to Differentiate Reference to Objects and Actions

    Michael Tomasello;Nameera Akhtar

  • Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts.

    Michael Tomasello;Randi Strosberg;Nameera Akhtar

  • The social nature of words and word learning

    Nameera Akhtar;Michael Tomasello

  • Two-year-olds learn words for absent objects and actions

    Nameera Akhtar;Michael Tomasello

  • Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs

    Michael Tomasello;Nameera Akhtar;Kelly Dodson;Laura Rekau

  • Relations between covert orienting and filtering in the development of visual attention.

    Nameera Akhtar;James T Enns

  • Can 18-Month-Old Infants Learn Words by Listening in on Conversations?.

    Penelope Floor;Nameera Akhtar

  • Social information processing deficits of aggressive children: Present findings and implications for social skills training

    Nameera Akhtar;E.Jane Bradley

  • Joint Attention and Vocabulary Development: A Critical Look

    Nameera Akhtar;Morton Ann Gernsbacher

  • Early lexical acquisition: the role of cross-situational learning:

    Nameera Akhtar;Lisa Montague

  • Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent: an alternative account of Samuelson and Smith.

    Gil Diesendruck;Lori Markson;Nameera Akhtar;Ayelet Reudor

  • A developmental study of filtering in visual attention.

    James T. Enns;Nameera Akhtar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Maureen A. Callanan
Maureen A. Callanan University of California, Santa Cruz
Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter University of St Andrews
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chris Moore
Chris Moore Dalhousie University
James T. Enns
James T. Enns University of British Columbia
Gil Diesendruck
Gil Diesendruck Bar-Ilan University
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
Jacob A. Burack
Jacob A. Burack McGill University
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Geoffrey K. Pullum University of Edinburgh

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