Neuroscience
Pucker up, baby! Lips take center stage in infants' brains, study says
A typically developing 2-month-old baby can make cooing sounds, suck on her hand to calm down and smile at people.
Jul 9, 2018
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Developmental Science
Psychology & Psychiatry
Word gap: When money's tight, parents talk less to kids
Three decades ago, child development researchers found that low-income children heard tens of millions fewer words in their homes than their more affluent peers by the time they reached kindergarten. This "word gap" was and ...
Jul 19, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Are you smarter than a 5-year-old? Preschoolers can do algebra (w/ Video)
Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and kindergarteners can do ...
Mar 6, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Babies' babbling betters brains, language
Babies are adept at getting what they need - including an education. New research shows that babies organize mothers' verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and infant babbling is the key.
Jan 18, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
EEG and lemur calls give insight to how infants link language and cognition
New research from Northwestern University provides the first evidence of underlying neural mechanisms that support infants' acquisition of the unique language-cognition link in humans.
Jun 18, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A child's spoken vocabulary helps them when it comes to reading new words for the first time
Children find it easier to spell a word when they've already heard it spoken, a new study led by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie University has found. The findings ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Neuroscience
How do testosterone's effects on the brain change from adolescence into adulthood?
Higher testosterone levels during adolescence are associated with increased involvement of the brain's anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC) in emotion control, but the opposite effect occurs during adulthood. In a study published ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Baby talk: Babies prefer listening to their own kind
A McGill University/UQAM research team has discovered that six-month-old infants appear to be much more interested in listening to other babies than they are in listening to adults. The researchers believe that an attraction ...
May 12, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants develop feelings about those who are like them and different from them at an early age
Though it may not always be obvious, babies frequently make social decisions about other people. They prefer some people over others. They like people who are similar to them, such as speakers of the same language. And they ...
Jul 13, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children begin to empathize with others at a younger age than expected
Here's a psychology experiment you can try at home: Watch a Hitchcock film with someone and observe how they respond as the story unfolds.
Apr 10, 2015
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