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 ...

The special tone of voice, which adults use to talk to babies might be an important part of infant's language learning ability. Researchers suspect that baby talk, with short sentences, slow pace and ...

One of the tightest interpersonal connections in the world is between new parents and their infants. Although tightening this connection seems unlikely, it is possible to enrich and expand it—in ways ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in ...

Researchers at Indiana University, supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, have published the results of their research on how infants put names to objects, a key step in ...

Babies can help unlock the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI), according to neuroscientists who have just published new guiding principles for improving AI. The research examines the ...

Researchers have identified when an important milestone in infants' development occurs: the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations. In a series of studies, the researchers found that ...