Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

A baby's first year brings incredible change. In just a few months, babies go from cooing and crawling to making sense of language in ways researchers are only starting to understand. One mystery has ...

There are some milestones that strike like a lightning bolt in early childhood. As a parent, you remember the first smile, the first step, and the first word. But talking, really talking – it sneaks ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – How do babies learn to talk? Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech significantly in response to babies’ babbling and early speech – an exchange that appears ...

Babies may be decoding more of our language than we assume, long before they utter their first word. New research shows that infants as young as 10 months can already recognise when a verb does not ...

Co-authored with Alyssa Swift, M.S. In the current post, we are returning to our lab’s roots investigating the foundations of emotional development that occur in infancy. We know that infants have an ...

Eylem Altuntas is a researcher at the BabyLab within the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University. Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing ...