Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

Engaging infants with a song provides a ready-made means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a new study. Engaging infants with a song provides a ready-made means for ...

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability ...

Music and singing are some of the most common forms of social interaction and play during early childhood. Caregivers all over the world sing to their infants to engage or soothe them. Seemingly ...

Social determinants of health, such as access to secure housing, family employment and economic stability, education, and child care, must be the focus of federal policies to support infant and ...

You may have heard that infants’ cries have different meanings like hunger, pain, startled, wet, and so on. Did you know that this is also the case with how a toddler looks towards their parents? The ...

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Abnormal social behaviors linked to mental disorders often arise in childhood and are closely linked to dysfunctions in neural circuits. Obvious technical limitations of studying neural networks in ...

Since the modern era of research on autism began in the 1980s, questions about social cognition and social brain development have been of central interest to researchers. This year marks the 20th ...

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.