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Drew Weatherhead is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University. His research broadly investigates mechanisms underlying early language acquisition, particularly focusing on infants and young children through various methods, including eye-tracking and functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Weatherhead’s work emphasizes sociolinguistic development, exploring how infants and children process accented speech and how speaker characteristics, including race, influence their perception. He is actively involved in supervising clinical PhD students as well as Honours and Directed Research/Independent Project students during the academic year 2026-2027.