Infants, who listened to a waltz, had enhanced neural activity in tests. — -- For growing babies, playing a waltz may help strengthen their ability to perceive speech and music, according to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALISBURY — Learning to communicate not vocally but using signs was the lesson of the day Saturday in the infant room at the Yadkin Path Montessori School on Bringle Ferry Road, a lesson geared toward ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

When meals are served in the infant room of the YMCA Childcare Center, something is missing -- eardrum-breaking noise. The typical crying, squawking, grunting and clatter of bowls being thrown ...

A new study revealed that preterm babies show improved language development when their mother talks to them. "As early as 23 weeks there have been studies that have said when an infant hears mother's ...