Healthy vision is integral to a baby learning early literacy skills. To support literacy and vision development, parents should read to their child early on, limit screen time and watch out for any ...

A longitudinal study in the Netherlands found that infants who displayed greater curiosity at 8 months of age tended to have ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

A recent study including 60 infants was published in the Scientific Reports Journal, which investigated the trajectories of infant visual preference for the mother's face and how these are related to ...

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 ...

A key brain region responds to faces similarly in infants and adults Study suggests this area of the visual cortex emerges much earlier in development than previously thought. Date: November 15, 2021 ...

Co-authored by Camila Alviar, Ph.D. and Miriam Lense, Ph.D. Infants all over the world become masters of the language their community speaks within the first 3 years of life, a surprisingly short time ...

New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with objects, a critical skill for later language development. A new study by Indiana University researchers offers a ...