Infant and Preschool Learning News
April 7, 2025
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Apr. 7, 2025 Body signals such as heartbeat and breathing accompany us constantly, often unnoticed as background noise of our perception. Even in the earliest years of life, these signals are important as they contribute to the development of self-awareness and ...
Apr. 1, 2025 A research group has uncovered a potential mechanism linking maternal inflammation to delayed neurodevelopment in infants. The research suggests the role of CD11c-positive microglia -- immune cells ...
Apr. 2, 2025 A newly published study found that a mother's exposure to phthalates during pregnancy can affect their newborn's metabolism and brain development. These widely used plasticizers are commonly found in ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain responsible for saving memories ...
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Mar. 17, 2025 By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and ...
Mar. 14, 2025 The oxytocin system -- which helps release breast milk and strengthens the bond between mother and baby -- may be affected during breastfeeding in ...
Mar. 11, 2025 Parenting skills can make a big difference in fostering a newborn's language acquisition and cognition, but there may be a limit to how far parenting can go to make up the challenges to developing ...
Mar. 4, 2025 A groundbreaking study shows that creativity plays an essential role in academic success, suggesting that students who think outside the box are more likely to excel in literacy and numeracy ...
Feb. 27, 2025 The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences -- experts use the term associative learning -- is a crucial skill for ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE -- a type of brain ...
Feb. 20, 2025 A longer paternity leave after the birth of a child can improve the co-parenting relationship between moms and dads in a key way, a new study finds. Researchers found that mothers were less likely to ...
Feb. 13, 2025 Many Japanese mothers are reluctant to send their children to childcare before the age of three due to the 'Three-Year-Old Myth,' which suggests that healthy development requires a child to stay at ...
Jan. 27, 2025 A large proportion of babies born very early need intensive care, which can be painful. But the healthcare system fails to provide pain relief to the full extent. This is shown by the largest survey ...
Jan. 16, 2025 A new study found that younger siblings generally receive more favorable treatment from parents. Meanwhile, older siblings are often granted more autonomy, and parents are less controlling towards ...
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Dec. 17, 2024 A psychologist found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart ...
Dec. 16, 2024 When young children's behavior becomes challenging, many parents resort to threats -- from taking away toys to threatening that Santa will skip their house, a national poll ...
Dec. 10, 2024 New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. In a new study, researchers found that there wasn't a single strategy that ...
Nov. 28, 2024 A Canadian study reveals that allophone children often face learning and communication difficulties in kindergarten, which can negatively impact their educational ...
Nov. 25, 2024 Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new ...
Nov. 25, 2024 New research challenges views on screen time, revealing factors such as parental mental health and the type of screen being used may have some impact on child ...
Nov. 22, 2024 Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new ...
Nov. 11, 2024 A consistent bedtime may be more important to a child's ability to control their emotions and behavior than the duration or quality of their sleep, according to a new ...
Nov. 4, 2024 Children too young to know words like 'impossible' and 'improbable' nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with two- and three-year-olds. The findings ...
Oct. 31, 2024 Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) are an established therapy for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth. Researchers have found that babies given ACS had notably smaller volumes of two key brain ...
Oct. 22, 2024 A world-first randomised controlled trial (RCT) of toddler screen time shows that removing screen time in the hour before bed improves the quality of toddler ...
Oct. 9, 2024 Parenting programs that address both mental health and parenting skills can improve children's development, but often fall short when it comes to offering effective mental-health support for ...
Oct. 1, 2024 Researchers explored how infants act purposefully by attaching a colorful mobile to their foot and tracking movements with a Vicon 3D motion capture system. The study tested AI's ability to ...
Sep. 13, 2024 Babies born to pregnant women with obesity are more likely to develop heart problems and diabetes as adults due to fetal damage caused by the high-fat, high-energy diet of their ...
Sep. 11, 2024 A technology which uses harmless light waves to measure activity in babies' brains has provided the most complete picture to date of brain functions like hearing, vision and cognitive processing ...
Sep. 10, 2024 Babies who have more diverse social contacts in the first years of their life can get over their prejudices more easily by the age of 17, according to new ...
Aug. 23, 2024 The sounds babies make in their first year of life may be less random and more self-driven than previously believed, according to new ...
Aug. 20, 2024 A study in mice has found that the bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in the mother's gut during pregnancy supports healthy brain development in the ...
Aug. 12, 2024 New research shows the timing of others' reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning language and social norms -- a process evident in infants' interactions with a ...
Aug. 12, 2024 In a pilot study, most people viewed humor as an effective parenting tool and that a parent or caregiver's use of humor affected the quality of their relationship with their children, according ...
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- Language Used by Mothers Affects Oxytocin Levels of Infants
- Beyond Screen Time: Complex Factors Shaping Child Development
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- Babbling Babies Need Timely Responses to Learn Language, Social Norms
- Parents Who Use Humor Have Better Relationships With Their Children, Study Finds
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- Emotional Overeating Fed by Temperament, Caregivers' Reactions to Children's Emotions
- Neighborhood Opportunities Influence Infant Development and Cognition
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- Babies Use 'helpless' Infant Period to Learn Powerful Foundation Models, Just Like ChatGPT
- Great News, Parents: You Do Have Power Over Your Tweens' Screen Use
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- Babies Babble Squeals and Growls in Clustering Patterns Observable from Birth Through the First Year
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- Discrimination During Pregnancy May Alter Circuits in Infants' Brains
- Children Born Moderately Early Are at an Increased Risk of Developmental Disorders
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- Why Reading Nursery Rhymes and Singing to Babies May Help Them to Learn Language
- How Pre And Postnatal B-12 Vitamins Improve Breast Milk Vitamin B-12 Levels, Which Supports Infant Brain Development
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- Despite Pressures Facing Young Families, Parents Take Precious Moments to Play With Their Babies
- Early Body Contact Develops Premature Babies' Social Skills
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- Poor Air Quality Linked to Cognitive Problems in Babies
- Study Finds Early RSV Infection Linked to Significantly Increased Risk of Asthma in Children
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- Research Shows Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words
- Early Signs That May Help Predict ADHD Risk
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- Brain-Wave Data and Hearing Test May Help Diagnosis Autism Earlier
- Daily, Consistent Parental Reading in the First Year of Life Improves Infants' Language Scores