A new study will investigate whether noise levels in nurseries affect the language development of babies. Researchers at the ...

Researchers looked at a connection between how infants process musical rhythm and language. We break it down.

Language and conversation is our lifeblood. And that’s even true, scientists say, if one of the “speakers” may not have fully developed language skills. Led by Dr. Betty Vohr, a professor of ...

Infant-directed speech - often referred to as baby talk - helps infants learn the sounds of their language. The post Baby talk helps infants’ brains process language earlier: study appeared first on ...

As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

John Spencer receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which ...

It's no secret that young children acquire new languages with impressive ease. What is less well understood are the neural mechanisms that underlie this remarkable brain plasticity. Now, new research ...

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what ...