From the Northwestern University press release: Three-month-old babies cannot sit up or roll over, yet they are already capable of learning patterns from simply looking at the world around them, according to a recent Northwestern…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income…
From the American Psychological Association press release: How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped…
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 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…