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 ...

How does speech from other children influence an infant’s ability to learn language? Federica Bulgarelli, assistant professor in the departments of Learning and Instruction and Psychology, has been ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

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 ...

You deserve local support from a community center you can actually get to. Here’s a simple, step-by-step plan to find welcoming parent-baby spaces in your neighborhood, plus scripts and checklists to ...

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has found that it can. A few weeks of prenatal exposure to a new language is ...

Researchers looked at a connection between how infants process musical rhythm and language. We break it down.

These 10 bite-sized actions, backed by science, help babies feel loved, engaged, happy, and calm. They also grow infants' brains, change their DNA for the better, and prime them for language ...

Baby talk could play a key role in helping toddlers’ early language development, according to new research. Infant-directed speech – often referred to as ‘baby talk’ – helps infants learn the sounds ...

Research suggests that phone use may have an effect on children's speech input and language development. However, most of the prior work in this area examines parents and children in controlled ...