Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be like decades later, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research ...

If you want to know more about how the human brain matures and changes over time, you can now consult the first comprehensive atlas that maps brain organization from infancy all the way through to ...

Income inequality has significantly increased in the United States since the 1980s (Pew Research Center, 2020). The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled between ...

One of the most pervasive myths about infancy, age 0-3 years old, is that infants don’t remember anything, so experience in infancy doesn’t really matter. I’ve heard this from even the most informed ...

New research shows that reading books with a child beginning in early infancy can boost vocabulary and reading skills four years later, before the start of elementary school. New research at the 2017 ...

Infant weight and weight gain are positively associated with later obesity, but whether there is a particular critical time during infancy remains uncertain. In a cohort representing 28 340 children ...