The advantages of growing up in a bilingual home can start as early as six months of age, according to new research led by York University's Faculty of Health. In the study, infants who are exposed to more than one language ...
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A research study of newborn babies has revealed that humans are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language.
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A new Northwestern University study provides strong and consistent evidence of bias at the intersection of race and gender in 4-year-old children. The researchers examined 4-year-old children's responses to images of other ...
Jan 24, 2019
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Stressful or traumatic experiences occurring in a child's earliest years—birth to age 5—have been linked to reduced hippocampal volume in adolescence, according to a new Vanderbilt University report published in Developmental ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Being able to voluntarily regulate our attention is crucial for mental processes such as intelligence and learning in children. Therefore, a group of researchers from the University of Granada, Spain (UGR) have carried out ...
Dec 12, 2018
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When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it's not just how much parents say, but how they say it.
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Scientists using machine learning—a type of artificial intelligence—with data from hundreds of children who struggle at school, identified clusters of learning difficulties which did not match the previous diagnosis the ...
Sep 30, 2018
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Even before infants begin to speak, hearing language promotes object categorization. Hearing the same label, "That's a dog!" applied to a diverse set of objects—a collie, a terrier, a pug—promotes infants' acquisition ...
Sep 19, 2018
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A parental training program for families referred to Child Protective Services improved toddlers' unconscious reactions to mildly stressful situations, as well as improving parents' behavior, according to a new study by researchers ...
Aug 28, 2018
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A typically developing 2-month-old baby can make cooing sounds, suck on her hand to calm down and smile at people.
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