Makeba Wilbourn

Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood.

M. Wilbourn, L. Vernon-Feagans, M. Willoughby, 2014, Child development.

Better early or late? Examining the influence of age of exposure and language proficiency on executive function in early and late bilinguals

M. Wilbourn, Vrinda Kalia, Kathleen Ghio, 2014 .

Henry the Nurse is a Doctor Too: Implicitly Examining Children’s Gender Stereotypes for Male and Female Occupational Roles

M. Wilbourn, D. W. Kee, Makeba Wilbourn, 2010 .

How White American Children Develop Racial Biases in Emotion Reasoning

M. Wilbourn, Ashley L. Ruba, S. Gaither, 2022, Affective Science.

Get by With a Little Help From a Word: Multimodal Input Facilitates 26-Month-Olds' Ability to Map and Generalize Arbitrary Gestural Labels

M. Wilbourn, Jacqueline Sims, Makeba Wilbourn, 2013 .

Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language.

M. Casasola, M. Wilbourn, Makeba Wilbourn, 2007, Infant behavior & development.

UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE PRECURSORS TO THE ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE: AN EXAMINATION OF INFANTS? PERCEPTION AND USE OF MANUAL GESTURES AND SIGNS

M. Wilbourn, Makeba Wilbourn, 2007 .

Communicating to Learn: Infants' Pointing Gestures Result in Optimal Learning.

Makeba Parramore Wilbourn, Kelsey Lucca, M. Wilbourn, 2018, Child development.