A recent study of adopted Romanian children suggests that early experiences of profound institutional deprivation continue to exert marked adverse effects on the children's IQ through age 11. The ...

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 research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...

A study of 229 infants shows that babies fed formula supplemented with docosahexaenoic acid -- an essential fatty acid found in breast milk -- have higher cognitive skills than babies fed regular ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could ...

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 ...

Imagine you are on your daily commute that involves a few miles on the freeway. You see signs of traffic on the entry to the freeway, and you take a different route that still gets you to work on time ...

Exposure to low doses of ionising radiation in infancy affects intellectual capacity in later life, conclude researchers from Sweden in this week's BMJ. CT scanning, which delivers high doses of ...

A longitudinal study uncovers the lifelong consequences of child abuse and exposure to interpersonal conflict in the first two years of life. RESULTS: Children who were abused or had witnessed ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...