An abstract of “Development of Perceptual Completion in Infancy” is available online from IngentaConnect. A new study suggests that very young infants build up their perceptual understanding of their ...

New research published in the journal eLife provides evidence that babies begin processing the structure of music very early in life, but their ability to physically coordinate their bodies to a ...

Infants’ preference for faces with direct compared to averted eye gaze, and for infant-directed over adult-directed speech, reflects early sensitivity to social communication. Here, we studied whether ...

Humans see the world through the five senses, but how and when the ability to integrate across the senses arises is debated. Research shows that humans combine sensory information together, ...

Many studies have shown that contagious yawning can be observed in several mammals 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Provine 7 showed that 16 of 30 human adults yawned as a response to videos of a person yawning, ...

We know that babies prefer the high-pitched sounds produced by their caregivers in “babytalk” over regular speech, but a new study provides an exciting new perspective. At five months of age, it seems ...