From the Cornell University press release: Babies are adept at getting what they need — including an education. New research shows that babies organize mothers’ verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and infant…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) press release: Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are one step closer to understanding how infants become securely attached to their parents. In a new study published last…
From the University of Washington press release: Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the baby’s brain response to touch than to, say, the sight of…
From the University of Liverpool press release: New research from the University of Liverpool suggests that children as young as eight can learn a route after only a single experience of it. Wayfinding is the…
From the Oregon State University press release: Adding a daily 20 to 30 minute self-regulation intervention to a kindergarten readiness program significantly boosted children’s self-regulation and early academic skills, an Oregon State University researcher has…
From the University of Florida press release: Parents and pediatricians know that reading to infants is a good thing, but new research shows reading books that clearly name and label people and objects is even…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses…
From the University of British Columbia press release: The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level, an effect detectable four years later, according to…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it,…
From the University at Buffalo press release: Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched…