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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.
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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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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 to ...
Apr 8, 2025
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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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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 ...
How do babies learn to talk? Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech significantly in response to babies' babbling and early speech—an exchange that appears fundamental to early language development, ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of "what it's doing to us" research, focused largely on schoolchildren. How were students' ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you've ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it's because they're picking up on more than just sounds—they're ...
Jan 29, 2025
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Are you a parent or teacher frustrated that the children in your life can't seem to pay attention when you're trying to teach them something? You don't need to be, say psychologists at the University of Toronto.
Jan 16, 2025
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For parents, caregivers and teachers, it's often tempting to base our thinking on a child's development around what we understand as "normal." Much of the time we do this without thinking, describing a child as "doing well" ...
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