Every parent wants to nurture their child’s developmental growth. Toys are a great resource to stimulate learning outside of ...

Many parents and caregivers believe that multi-sensory stimulation during infancy promotes developmental growth and learning, but researchers who conducted eye movement experiments on preverbal ...

Using both robots and infants, a cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge. "This study shows that the body plays a role ...

A developmental psychologist has completed a study that is the first to measure how often infants spend time in different body positions over the first year of life. The study aims to understand how ...

Baby talk speeds up an infant's learning, new research suggests. Babbling terms of endearment such as 'coochie coo' helps youngsters pick up language more quickly and could give them a head start at ...

A new finding says that infants begin learning nearly from birth by taking inventory of the things they see. Psychologists from the University of Iowa contend that infants create knowledge by looking ...

Educational DVDs may hinder rather than help a young child’s learning. Infants who watch DVDs such as Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein know fewer words than those who do not watch such programmes, a new ...