Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor ...

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 ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 17 (Apr. 25, 2006), pp. 6771-6774 (4 pages) Between 6 and 10 months of age, infants become better at ...

Seven-month-old infants' perception of positive (happy, interested) and negative (angry, sad) affective expressions was investigated using a preferential looking procedure (n = 20 in each of 6 ...

Babies, like tiny feral animals, learn with their mouths. It’s one of the earliest forms of problem-solving: Does this hand/iPhone/Cheerio taste good? What’s its texture? What does it do? But babies ...

People with autism are often described as "seeing the world differently." They tend to show superior perception for details, like, for example, the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire's highly accurate ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

Researchers find irregular acoustic patterns in baby cries not only heighten adults’ perception of pain but also their facial temperature - Anadolu Ajansı ...