News tagged with infant cognition
Nighttime sleep found beneficial to infants' skills
At ages 1 and 1-1/2, children who get most of their sleep at night (as opposed to during the day) do better in a variety of skill areas than children who don't sleep as much at night.
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Talk to your babies: Words influence infants' cognition from first months of life
Northwestern University researchers have found that even before infants begin to speak, words play an important role in their cognition. For 3-month-old infants, words influence performance in a cognitive task in a way that ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Baby Einstein Controversy: Professor Offers Healthy Language Learning Alternatives for Young Children
(PhysOrg.com) -- Baby Einstein videos have become a staple in many American households until recently when the Walt Disney Company decided to refund the product, acknowledging that these ever-popular videos were not intended ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls
Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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