Infant and Preschool Learning News
April 28, 2024
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Apr. 8, 2024 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 type of activity predicted enhanced language ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Researchers have found that even low to moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their babies' prenatal development, including lower birth length and a shorter duration of ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Academics are proposing a new and improved way to help researchers discover when consciousness emerges in human ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers make the case that five 'Thrive Factors' are a key element of healthy human brain, behavioral and cognitive ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 A new national survey finds a broad majority of parents experience isolation, loneliness and burnout from the demands of parenthood, with many feeling a lack of support in fulfilling that ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Most babies begin recognizing themselves in mirrors when they are about a-year-and-a-half old. This kind of self-recognition is an important developmental milestone, and now scientists have ...
Mar. 7, 2024 The COVID vaccine is safe to administer during pregnancy, researchers report in an important finding on the safety of the vaccine in infants -- despite widespread fear and ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Parents of young children with an excitable or exuberant temperament could adapt their parenting style to help moderate their child's potential development of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Fine motor skills in young children are linked to better GCSE scores and fewer behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence, according to a new ...
Jan. 22, 2024 No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study ...
Jan. 4, 2024 In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified ...
Jan. 2, 2024 Researchers have found that enlarged perivascular spaces in the brains of babies, caused by an accumulation of excess cerebrospinal fluid, have a 2.2 ...
Dec. 18, 2023 Among many parents' top resolutions for the New Year: More patience, less time on phones, better consistency with discipline and healthier family ...
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Dec. 14, 2023 Do you celebrate your birthday in the same month as your mum? If so, you are not alone. The phenomenon occurs more commonly than expected -- a new study of millions of families has ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Breastfeeding, even partially alongside formula feeding, changes the chemical makeup -- or metabolome -- of an infant's gut in ways that positively influence brain development and may boost test ...
Dec. 8, 2023 Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is proven to protect both mother and child health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2015 and 2021, 48% of mothers ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children. These stressful experiences also appear to be transmitted from ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Children born between 32 and 38 weeks' gestation are more likely to have developmental disorders -- such as language delay, cognitive impairment, ADHD and Cerebral palsy -- compared with ...
Dec. 4, 2023 Research has shown that children who experience adversity during their early years may undergo faster biological aging. Nonetheless, a recent study reveals that positive parenting interventions can ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information ...
Dec. 1, 2023 According to a new study B-12 vitamins increase the presence of the micronutrient in mothers' breast milk, which is especially helpful in countries where it can be difficult to eat what is ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Four in five primary caregivers of nine-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national long-term study of babies in over two ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Skin-to-skin contact between parent and infant during the first hours after a very premature birth helps develop the child's social skills. The study also shows that fathers may play a more ...
Nov. 27, 2023 Whether infants at five months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes. The findings suggest that there is a biological basis ...
Nov. 22, 2023 A new piece of research looks at the challenges faced by adopted people when they become parents. The study investigated the lived experiences of adopted people in the UK as they become parents. ...
Nov. 7, 2023 A team of researchers has found that slightly higher, but mild anxious or depressive symptoms in fathers were associated with fewer behavioral difficulties in the first years of elementary school and ...
Oct. 26, 2023 New research shows that children who are too short for their age can suffer reduced cognitive ability from as early as six months old. Researchers compared the 'visual working memory' in ...
Oct. 19, 2023 Whether a mouse is a good or bad parent can be traced back to imprinted genes in key neurons in the 'parenting hub' in the brain, according to a new ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Scientists examining the evolutionary roots of language say they've discovered chimp vocal development is not far off from ...
Oct. 12, 2023 There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers has ...
Sep. 28, 2023 Grandparent childcare for toddlers doesn’t have an impact on the wellbeing of their mothers, a new study ...
Sep. 27, 2023 A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by ...
Sep. 18, 2023 Fundamental questions of agency -- acting with purpose -- have perplexed some of the greatest minds in history including Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Now, human babies provide groundbreaking ...
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- Discrimination During Pregnancy May Alter Circuits in Infants' Brains
- Children Born Moderately Early Are at an Increased Risk of Developmental Disorders
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- Why Reading Nursery Rhymes and Singing to Babies May Help Them to Learn Language
- How Pre And Postnatal B-12 Vitamins Improve Breast Milk Vitamin B-12 Levels, Which Supports Infant Brain Development
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- Despite Pressures Facing Young Families, Parents Take Precious Moments to Play With Their Babies
- Early Body Contact Develops Premature Babies' Social Skills
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- Poor Air Quality Linked to Cognitive Problems in Babies
- Study Finds Early RSV Infection Linked to Significantly Increased Risk of Asthma in Children
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
- Research Shows Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words
- Early Signs That May Help Predict ADHD Risk
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- Brain-Wave Data and Hearing Test May Help Diagnosis Autism Earlier
- Daily, Consistent Parental Reading in the First Year of Life Improves Infants' Language Scores
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- Birthweights Below the 25th Percentile Linked to Later Developmental Concerns
- Properties of 'baby Talk' Similar Across Many Languages
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- Brain Development of the Preterm Baby Is Improved by Supporting Emotional Connection With the Parent
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- Deciphering a Baby's Cries of Pain Is Not an Innate Ability and Must Be Learned
- Seven-Month-Old Babies Already Have a Sense of Symmetry
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- New Insights on Infant Word Learning
- How Mothers Calm Their Distressed Infants With Soothing Signals
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- Wide-Ranging Problems in Children Born Before 24 Weeks Gestation
- Maternal Socialization, Not Biology, Shapes Child Brain Activity