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 ...

An abstract of “Development of Perceptual Completion in Infancy” is available online from IngentaConnect. A new study suggests that very young infants build up their perceptual understanding of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling into water, a new study shows. The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling ...

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 ...

In a potentially threatening situation, the world looks more dangerous when caring for a baby, finds first-of-its-kind ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 349-368 (20 pages) Between the ages of 5 and 10, children gain skill in focusing expectancies and attention. We asked ...

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 ...