Toddlers develop individualized rules for grammar
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a University of Texas at Austin linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Spanking Can Make Children More Aggressive Later: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children who are spanked frequently at age 3 are more likely to be aggressive when they’re 5, even when you account for possible confounding factors, according to a new study co-authored by Tulane University ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Research indicates toddlers can become ageists by three
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. For Sheree Kwong See, it happened during a testing session with a subject while conducting a study on language and cognitive changes ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A second language gives toddlers an edge
Toddlers who learn a second language from infancy have an edge over their unilingual peers, according to a new study from Concordia University and York University in Canada and the Universite de Provence in France. As reported ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Exploration in toddlers activated by fathers
A new study has found that fathers give toddlers more leeway and that allows them to actively explore their environments, according to a new study on parent-child attachment published in Early Child Development and Care.
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Mar 31, 2010 |
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Visual pattern preference may be indicator of autism in toddlers
Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic geometric ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Mothering styles predict nature of adult relationships
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anxious about the stability of your relationship with your romantic partner? Uncomfortable relying on a friend?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Psychologists suggest parents should wait to teach toddlers self-control
Toddlers are distractible. Their minds flit constantly here and there, and they have a terrible time concentrating on even the most stimulating project. They might be fascinated by a colorful new toy, but only until the next ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Children under 3 can't learn action words from TV -- unless an adult helps
American infants and toddlers watch TV an average of two hours a day, and much of the programming is billed as educational. A new study finds that children under age 3 learn less from these videos that we might think -- unless ...
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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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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Toddlers appreciate good intentions, study finds
Researchers at Queen's University have discovered that toddlers as young as 21 months appreciate good intentions, and will do their best to reward the efforts of people who try to help them.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Latino toddlers lag in cognitive growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers find that immigrant Latina mothers, who typically live in poor neighborhoods, give birth to healthy babies, but their toddlers start ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Toddlers and TV: Early exposure has negative and long-term impact
Want kids who are smarter and thinner? Keep them away from the television set as toddlers. A shocking study from child experts at the Université de Montréal, the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Listen up, parents: For toddlers (and chimps), the majority rules
A study published online on April 12 in the journal Current Biology offers some news for parents: even toddlers have a tendency to follow the crowd. That sensitivity isn't unique to humans either; chimpanzees also a ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Background TV found to have negative effect on parent-child interactions
More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one's watching. A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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