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…
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science press release: Infants who observe someone putting more effort into attaining a goal attribute more value to it, a new study finds. Past work has shed…
From the Duke University press release: The meaning behind infants’ screeches, squeals and wails may frustrate and confound sleep-deprived new parents. But at an age when babies cannot yet speak to us in words, they…
From the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute press release: A comprehensive review of research on several measures of the quality of early childhood education suggests that the instructional practices of preschool teachers have the…
From the University of Oregon press release: For students in preschool, speaking two languages may be better than one, especially for developing inhibitory control — the ability to stop a hasty reflexive response and instead…
From the Brown University press release: Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn, remember and use contextual cues in a scene to guide their search for objects of interest,…
From the University of Leiden press release: Parents often see that when their sweet, socially-minded children become adolescents they change into selfish ‘hotel guests’ who think only of themselves. But adolescents become increasingly better at…