Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

Psychology researchers provide a fresh perspective on how infants connect names with objects, a critical skill for language development. A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with ...

Why is language uniquely human? As mentioned in previous posts, chimpanzees can’t learn language because they can’t learn to name things. Only humans can. We’ve also argued that an infant’s ...

Infants can differentiate most sounds soon after birth, and by age 1, they become language-specific listeners. But researchers are still trying to understand how babies recognize which acoustic ...

From the womb to toddlerhood, babies are soaking up the sounds, rhythms, and patterns of language long before they speak ...

From hearing muffled sounds in the womb to guessing the meaning of new words at 15 months, babies’ brains are wired for ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

Are you curious about how infants learn language? In this project, we are interested in understanding how infants learn from older children (e.g. their older siblings). Undergraduate research ...

Babies also learn through actively engaging with their environment. Throughout their first year of life, they’ll learn to use their hands, mouths and bodies to manipulate objects, make discoveries, ...