The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ that we are struggling to understand scientifically. To help us understand the way the brain works, we often use the most complex machines of an era to ...

Psychology researchers provide a fresh perspective on how infants connect names with objects, a critical skill for language development. A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with ...

Making infants laugh can help them learn complex skills, a study in Cognition and Emotion suggests. The study found that 94 percent of infants who laughed at an adult performing a humorous ...

A developmental psychologist has completed a study that is the first to measure how often infants spend time in different body positions over the first year of life. The study aims to understand how ...

Parents are constantly beset by advertisements for toys and programs that will turn their children into “little Einsteins.” Researchers dismiss most such claims, refocusing parents on face-to-face ...

When we read, it’s very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with objects, a critical skill for later language development. A new study by Indiana University researchers offers a ...