Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...

A new study by a New York University professor suggests perceptual maturity in infants develops in the early months after birth as a result of piecing together fragments of the visual scene. The ...

The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling into water, a new study shows. The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling ...

Infants growing up in bilingual environments succeed at learning two languages. What adaptive processes enable them to master the more complex nature of bilingual input? One possibility is that ...

An abstract of “Development of Perceptual Completion in Infancy” is available online from IngentaConnect. A new study suggests that very young infants build up their perceptual understanding of their ...

In a recent article published in Nature, researchers investigated the early maturation of sound duration processing, a crucial auditory temporal feature. Study: Early maturation of sound duration ...

The human brain is wired to integrate information from different senses to create a unified perception of the world. This study focused on how sight and smell work together in newborn babies.