Psychology researchers provide a fresh perspective on how infants connect names with objects, a critical skill for language development. A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with ...

New research shows baby babbling changes the way parents speak to their infants, suggesting that infants are shaping their own learning environments. New research shows baby babbling changes the way ...

Languages differ in the sounds they use. The Japanese language, for example, does not distinguish between "r" and "l" sounds as in "rock" versus "lock." Remarkably, infants become attuned to the ...

A SUNY Cortland associate professor of psychology is making house calls to help parents and scientists better understand babies. Kimberly Kraebel is half way through a two-year infant learning and ...

Research shows that prior to infants speaking, they can identify new sounds as communicative signals Once identified, this new signal (like language) then boosts infants' learning Study reveals ...

One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

Anyone who has tried to entertain a baby knows sitting in stillness and silence is probably not the best way to keep them engaged, which presents a challenge for neuroscientists who want to study the ...

In 2014, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Infant Learning, the company behind the "Your Baby Can Read!" series, to stop claiming that it can, in fact, teach babies to read. But Infant Learning, ...