Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

Summary: Hearing their mother’s voice may help premature babies develop stronger language pathways in the brain. In a groundbreaking study, preemies who regularly listened to recordings of their ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

The study’s senior author, Anne Gallagher, emphasized to Scientific American that “We cannot say babies ‘learn’ a language,” ...

“This is the first causal evidence that a speech experience is contributing to brain development at this very young age,” ...

A new study revealed that preterm babies show improved language development when their mother talks to them. "As early as 23 weeks there have been studies that have said when an infant hears mother's ...

When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

You know when your baby is happy because they coo at you. When your baby is unhappy, they let you know with a loud wail. You may have even noticed that your baby’s cry sounds different from time to ...

As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has ...