Brain activity of babies in developing countries could be monitored from birth to reveal the first signs of cognitive dysfunction, using a new technique piloted … Read more
For more than a decade, Northeastern psychology professor Iris Berent has focused her research on one central question: What makes human language so special? So … Read more
Like rings of a tree, hair can reveal a lot of information about the past. It can tell if a person recently used drugs or … Read more
A rare and potentially lethal disease of newborn babies whose bodies make too much insulin may be treatable with fish oils, according to researchers from … Read more
Catalan researchers have studied the acquisition and development of language in babies on the basis of the temporary coordination of gestures and speech. The results … Read more
Babies can detect language differences – understanding that people who speak different languages use words differently. In a recent study at the University of Auckland, infants … Read more
Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear the faster their vocabulary grows. Now new findings show that what spurs early … Read more
The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. … Read more
Low birth weight infants are host to numerous microorganisms immediately after birth, and the microbiomes of their mouths and gut start out very similar but … Read more
A team of researchers has shown that 8-month-old infants expect objects they identify as animals to have insides. The study appears in the Proceedings of … Read more
Infants develop a fear of heights as a result of their experiences moving around their environments, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a … Read more
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