Students and faculty in the University of Chicago Department of Psychology have found the first evidence of a link between neural responses from the motor systems of infants and their overt social ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, researchers assessed the impact of infant-directed singing on the social visual behavior of the infant. When ...

Researchers studying babies to discover the origins of perception and cognition measure what babies look at, or what captures their attention. But scholars have long wondered how much they can rely on ...

Efforts to detect autism spectrum disorder before the age of two mostly rely on parental reports, as opposed to infant behavior. Measuring infant behavior, however, directly provides vital information ...

The more Arnold Gesell studies children, the more complicated he finds them. Probably the world’s best-informed expert on child behavior, he has examined thousands, with cameras and his solemn eye, in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents' interactions with their baby during the first year of life can predict the odds of behavior problems later on -- as can the baby's natural temperament, research ...

Infant facial preference and early sensitive parenting may predict development of callous, unemotional traits, which in turn might indicate a tendency toward antisocial behavior, new research suggests ...

Paige Thompson, a first year PhD student working with Dr. Laura Claxton in the Purdue Motor Development Lab, presented her work on bimanual motor interactions in infancy at the North American Society ...