Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor ...

Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...

In a recent article published in Nature, researchers investigated the early maturation of sound duration processing, a crucial auditory temporal feature. Study: Early maturation of sound duration ...

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, Special Issue on Face Perception (JUNE 2017), pp. 256-262 (7 pages) Infants have asymmetrical exposure to different types of faces (e.g., ...

People with autism are often described as "seeing the world differently." They tend to show superior perception for details, like, for example, the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire's highly accurate ...

Babies, like tiny feral animals, learn with their mouths. It’s one of the earliest forms of problem-solving: Does this hand/iPhone/Cheerio taste good? What’s its texture? What does it do? But babies ...

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 349-368 (20 pages) Between the ages of 5 and 10, children gain skill in focusing expectancies and attention. We asked ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...