FROM THE LAB TO THE LIVING ROOM
Parents
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When adults speak to babies, they change how they speak without even thinking about it. They speak higher, more slowly, and exaggerate the prosody (rise and fall of the voice). Research shows that speaking this ...
Babies are discriminating learners!
Babies love to imitate those around them. They actively observe their environment and imitate much behaviour including others’ facial expressions right down to their mannerisms. It’s how they learn. However, it may not always be ...
Use your words, babies!
In infancy and toddlerhood, girls tend to have better language and social skills than boys. On average, toddler girls are advanced in the size of their vocabularies and the length of the sentences they can ...
This is my baby’s temperament!
Maybe you have one child who is calm and easygoing and another child who is energetic or sensitive. Did you ever wonder why they behave differently, even though you raised them in the same environment. ...
TOYS AND TV: COMPETING FOR BABIES’ ATTENTION
Infants and toddlers are a growing audience for TV programs and videos that are produced especially for them. Infants as young as 3-months watch these media and become regular viewers over their first year. Parents ...
Mom, what are you looking at?
Babies are interested in what other people are looking at from early on. Three-month-old infants follow the gaze direction of an adult. Babies increase frequency and precision of gaze following throughout infancy. Even more remarkably, ...
Is it light or heavy? Infants predict weight through material
Infants need to know a lot about objects and what they can do with them in order to interact effectively with the world. For example, knowing how heavy an object is tells an infant which ...
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