Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Caregiver smartphone use can affect a baby's development; new parents should receive more guidance
We already know excessive smartphone use affects people's mental health and their relationships.
Dec 9, 2025
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms: News and Research on Language Development
MeSH tree: F01.525.200.310
Neuroscience
Learning a foreign language—before you're born
Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has found that it can. A few weeks of prenatal exposure to a new language is enough to rewire the language ...
Oct 6, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children under three can learn new words even when speakers wear masks
A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has shown that from the age of two, children can learn new words ...
Jul 7, 2025
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Pediatrics
Screen time may slow learning skills, study finds
Screens are a part of daily life for many families—but too much screen time in the early years could slow a child's language development, a new study suggests.
Jul 7, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages
There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.
Jun 10, 2025
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Pediatrics
Is there a right way to talk to your baby? A baby brain expert explains 'parentese'
You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or caregivers engage in long "talks" with young babies about this and that—usually just fun chit chat of no great consequence.
Jun 2, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants as young as 15 months can learn new words for unseen objects
Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word's meaning.
Apr 23, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study links executive function to language skills in young children
A young child's ability to regulate behavior—a component of executive functioning, the cognitive processes that help with planning, focus, and self-control—is related to how they process and acquire language, according ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Pediatrics
Good parenting helps, but has limits under major deprivation
Good parenting can make all the difference as newborns learn to communicate and process information, and an increasing amount of early-childhood development research has shown that parent training is a worthy investment to ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Excessive screen time linked to lower language development in toddlers
A collaboration of researchers from 20 nations has found that toddlers exceed recommended screen time limits, with television and smartphones being the most frequently used devices. Higher screen exposure was associated with ...
