An abstract of “Development of Perceptual Completion in Infancy” is available online from IngentaConnect. A new study suggests that very young infants build up their perceptual understanding of their ...

Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

New research from UCLA psychologists suggests that infants under one year old are aware of racial and ethnic differences. A group of Hispanic and White infants, all 11 months old, were shown pictures ...

Humans see the world through the five senses, but how and when the ability to integrate across the senses arises is debated. Research shows that humans combine sensory information together, ...

A newborn infant can see its parents' expressions at a distance of 30 cm. For the first time researchers have managed to reconstruct infants visual perception of the world. By combining technology, ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This research investigated the role of person familiarity in the ability of 3.5-month-old infants to recognize emotional expressions. Infants ...

Catherine Laing works for Cardiff University. She received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. We know that babies prefer the high-pitched sounds produced by their caregivers in ...