A baby's first year brings incredible change. In just a few months, babies go from cooing and crawling to making sense of language in ways researchers are only starting to understand. One mystery has ...

She is so determined!

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what infants learn before they are born. At the core of her work is the idea that ...

The timing of others' reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning language and social norms—a process evident in infants' interactions with a robot, new Cornell research shows.

If you've ever said you just "have no rhythm," it turns out you might not have any excuse. A new study found that infants can recognize and learn the rhythm of music within just 48 hours of first ...

Babies are more likely to learn from parents who make eye contact and use infant-directed language. Source: AntonioGuillem/iStock Ever tried to convince a baby to try a new food like broccoli? You ...

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

My almost two-year-old’s current musical obsessions are 1) singing and doing the hand motions for “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and 2) dancing to the song “She’s a Lady” by Tom Jones. Due to these ...

People are constantly learning from others without even being aware of it. Social learning avoids laborious trial and error; the wheel does not have to be reinvented each time. But where does this ...

Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better at recognizing patterns in speech—an important skill for learning language. Contrary to popular opinion, ...

A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by caregivers. People are constantly learning from others without even being aware of it. Social learning ...