"Caregivers should be aware of the important role crawling plays in infant development and the benefits of promoting crawling opportunities for their infants.

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 ...

It also has implications for speech perception in infants with motor impairments of the mouth, such as cleft palate, tongue-tie or paralysis.

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 ...

“Before infants are able to speak, their articulatory configurations affect the way they perceive speech, suggesting that the speech production system shapes speech perception from early in life ...

Study: Early maturation of sound duration processing in the infant’s brain. Image Credit: Sarahbean/Shutterstock/com Background The manner in which sound changes over time is one of the primary ...

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, Special Issue on Face Perception (JUNE 2017), pp. 256-262 (7 pages) Infants have asymmetrical exposure to different types of faces (e.g., ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 349-368 (20 pages) Between the ages of 5 and 10, children gain skill in focusing expectancies and attention. We asked ...

Visual perception enables infants to form social bonds in their environment and is crucial for their cognitive and emotional development.

In the case of children, some researchers have also studied the development of face perception using the EEG, and showed that the adult's pattern of N170 did not reach by 14 years of age.

A new research lab, sponsored by NTID, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception in infants and young children.