They also reveal that advanced development isn't universally positive. For the study, published Nov. 26 in Nature ...

"These findings indicate that as a baby learns a new skill, such as walking, the brain appears to reorganize itself, resulting in a temporary developmental step backward," says Daniela Corbetta, a ...

Our research team is interested in the rate and composition of vocabulary development in monolingual and bilingual infants. Our recent publications on this topic have reported that bilinguals’ word ...

Infant negative emotionality is associated with childhood maltreatment at ages 5 and 9 and ADHD symptoms at 5. ADHD symptoms ...

Both painful shocks and gentle handling enhance the development of normal stress responses in infant animals. The absence of such treatment leads to behavioral disorders when the animal matures ...

The purpose of this chapter is to review and synthesize available data regarding the sensorimotor development of infants with Down syndrome. The term sensorimotor development refers to qualitative ...