Genetics factors could contribute to the development of language during infancy, a new study reports.
Reading to infants and young children is associated with stronger vocabulary skills at age three. The findings reveal parents who read to children with genetic predispositions to learning and attention disorders help improve their language acquisition skills.
A new study reveals how manipulating the FoxP2 gene could have positive implications for those suffering speech related disorders.
Studying the neurodevelopment in young children acquiring language skills, researchers found larger myelin structures were already in place.
Researchers suggest that while experience is important for early language acquisition, it does not account for all of a child's language facility.
A new study explores how children's use of gestures is connected to communication and language acquisition.
A new study challenges how we think about how humans acquired language. The study found no evidence that recent, human specific selection occurs for the FOXP2 gene in relation to language development
A new study links folic acid intake in pregnant women with epilepsy and language development in children. Researchers report among children whose mothers with epilepsy did not take folic acid, 34% had delayed language skills at 18 months.
According to researchers, even before they can talk, infants are able to form object categories and make predictions about the object's behavior.
A new study on infantile memory formation in rats points to the importance of critical periods in early-life learning on functional development of the brain.
Just as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.
Using fNIRS, researchers discovered babies are able to pick out words from speech at as young as three days old.
