A new 3D imaging method allows researchers to measure brain growth and folding patterns in a baby's brain during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Researchers report children who underwent general anesthesia and surgery prior to the age of one showed decreased white matter volume and integrity.
A new study reveals antibiotics given to pregnant women with Group B Streptococcus during labor can affect a baby's development of gut bacteria.
By eleven months, infants hold language dependent expectations of a speaker's ethnicity. The study suggests babies make connections between languages based on the individuals they encounter in their environments.
At 6 months of age, babies are capable of memory guided attention, a new study reveals. Young infants are able to learn and remember contextual visual cues to find objects of interest, researchers report. The findings shed new light on both typical and atypical brain development.
Babies pay close attention to what food is eaten around them and who is eating it, a new study reports.
Contrary to popular belief, exposing children to stimuli early can help to boost their development, researchers report.
By the age of six months, infants can recognize when an adult imitates them and perceive the imitator as more friendly.
Babies as young as six months of age are able to transfer emotional information from the auditory to visual mode, researchers report.
Children as young as 15 months can repeat simple melodies they hear hours after exposure to the tune.
A short nap allows babies to generalize individual experiences, preserve the details of the experience, and differentiate the events from existing general knowledge.
Children infected with Group B Strep during the birth process are more likely to experience neurodevelopmental disorders and require ongoing special educational support than their peers who were not infected with GBS.
