Infants, who listened to a waltz, had enhanced neural activity in tests. — -- For growing babies, playing a waltz may help strengthen their ability to perceive speech and music, according to a ...

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 ...

SALISBURY — Learning to communicate not vocally but using signs was the lesson of the day Saturday in the infant room at the Yadkin Path Montessori School on Bringle Ferry Road, a lesson geared toward ...

Girls have long been thought to have a language advantage over boys as infants. But new research finds that boys make more vocalization sounds than girls do in the early months of life. These squeals, ...

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 ...

A group of Stanford researchers are harnessing the sound of mothers' voices for infants born weeks or months prematurely, ...