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

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

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

In the study, infants who are exposed to more than one language show better attentional control than infants who are exposed to only one language. This means that exposure to bilingual environments ...

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 ...

The ability to use the relations between visible landmarks to locate nonvisible goals (allocentric spatial coding) underlies success on a variety of everyday spatial orientation problems. Little is ...