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 ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.

Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paying less attention to faces is one of the key markers of autism spectrum disorder. But while researchers have begun to ...

In a potentially threatening situation, the world looks more dangerous when caring for a baby, finds first-of-its-kind ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over ...