A Child’s Touch Highlights the Powerful Role of Language and Music in Infant Brain Development with New Educational Blog Post ...

In Brain Sense, I describe how the capacity for language develops in the infant brain before birth. Brain activity in the left-hemisphere language centers can be detected in infants as young as five ...

We all sometimes stare at our bawling baby and wish they could just tell ...

UA professor of psychology and linguistics LouAnn Gerken was recently awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research how babies acquire language. Gerken’s research will ...

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 ...

A new study coming from researchers with the Society for Research in Child Development found parents' smartphone usage could impact an infant's language development. The study was completed with a ...

Babies recognize familiar voices and languages before they are even born. Researchers stress that this discovery does not mean babies are actually learning language during gestation, however. This is ...

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 ...

When a parent needs to cook dinner or take a shower, often they will place their baby in a bouncy seat, swing, exersaucer, or similar seating device intended to protect the baby and grant a degree of ...

After watching her deaf grandparents using American Sign Language, a 5½-month-old St. Augustine baby named Jane has begun mimicking their gestures to try to communicate with them herself. One of her ...