In Brain Sense, I describe how the capacity for language develops in the infant brain before birth. Brain activity in the left-hemisphere language centers can be detected in infants as young as five ...

UA professor of psychology and linguistics LouAnn Gerken was recently awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research how babies acquire language. Gerken’s research will ...

A new study coming from researchers with the Society for Research in Child Development found parents' smartphone usage could impact an infant's language development. The study was completed with a ...

From hearing muffled sounds in the womb to guessing the meaning of new words at 15 months, babies’ brains are wired for ...

Babies recognize familiar voices and languages before they are even born. Researchers stress that this discovery does not mean babies are actually learning language during gestation, however. This is ...

Baby talk could play a key role in helping toddlers' early language development, according to new research. Infant-directed speech - often referred to as ‘baby talk’ - helps infants learn the sounds ...

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 ...

October 9, 2012 — Maternal depression and its treatment can change the timing of language development in infants, new research shows. Janet Werker, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ...