First study to tease apart role of infants' early experience and maturational status in establishing the earliest link between language and cognition Preterm infants are maturationally on par with ...

Roughly one in ten babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy – a birth considered preterm. These infants are biologically less mature at birth and face a higher risk of developmental ...

Previous research has shown that preterm children often perform worse on language assessments during their school years. But do these differences start much earlier? A research team at the University ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

A study published in the journal PNAS highlights the impact of overhearing-based learning on language development in infants who are rarely spoken to directly. Tseltal mother carrying a nine-month-old ...

During the randomized study, parents/guardians were given a set of 20 children's books specifically chosen to support early language development and interaction with print media. Enrolled families ...

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 ...

Make your little munchkin a bookworm: Reading books every day can improve language development in infants 12 months and younger. Parental reading in the first year of life can improve early speech and ...