Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor ...

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...

October 9, 2012 — Maternal depression and its treatment can change the timing of language development in infants, new research shows. Janet Werker, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ...

Dr. Ross Flom's research on child development has changed the impact of infant studies. After years of researching how infants perceive facial details at certain ages, Flom has discovered that some ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

Behind the scenes at the Cornell baby lab, psychologist Scott P. Johnson monitors progress of a perception experiment. The video monitor at left shows the baby who is tracking a moving object on a ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging ...

5-month-old infants who had been habituated to a live face showed no change in fixation time when presented with an immediately following photographic slide of that same face, while they showed an ...

Dr. Enifome Ogbimi, Founder and CEO of Kids Development Hub, is no doubt, revolutionizing the perception of child development in Nigeria. In this enlightening conversation, the child development ...