From the University of Pennsylvania press release: At an age when “ba-ba” and “da-da” may be their only utterances, infants nevertheless comprehend words for many common objects, according to a… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via AlphaGalileo: In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks… Read more »
From the Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert!: New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to… Read more »
From the University of Missouri press release: While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that… Read more »
From the Northwestern University press release: Although the genetic basis of autism is now well established, a growing body of research also suggests that environmental factors may play a role… Read more »
From the Temple University press release: Babies embrace nice characters over those who are bad. That’s according to a new study co-authored by Temple psychology postdoctoral fellow Neha Mahajan with… Read more »
From the Oxford University press release: The sound of babies crying is uniquely able to get adults to react at speed, Oxford University researchers have found. They compared the scores… Read more »
From the Cardiff University press release via MedicalXPress: Infants can understand the difference between intentional and accidental actions from tone of voice alone, new research by the Cardiff University School… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of “object permanence” –… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We know a lot about the links between a pregnant mother’s health, behavior, and moods and her baby’s cognitive and psychological development… Read more »
