October 17, 2011 — Parental talk in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) proved a strong predictor of infant vocalizations at 32 weeks and conversational turns at 32 and 36 weeks in preterm infants ...

A new study finds that although human and non-human primate vocalizations facilitate core cognitive processes in very young human infants, birdsong does not. A new study by Northwestern University ...

FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A baby's gentle murmurs and coos can melt even the stoniest heart. But those giggles and babbles are more than just music to a doting parent's ears. These ...

A psychologist found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart rate. The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like ...

Even tiny premature babies in hospital care after birth can make baby sounds, and are especially vocal when their parents are talking to them -- a finding that could be significant in terms of later ...

Analysis of recordings from infants' homes reveals that certain types of vocal interactions between adults and infants are associated with a larger infant vocabulary. Lukas Lopez of University of ...

You've heard it. You've probably done it. We're talking baby talk. And it turns out, the features of baby talk — softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary — are global. Researchers ...

Most people wouldn’t think physics has anything to do with baby babble and human language development. But most people aren’t Ritwika Vallomparambath PanikkasserySugasree. The graduate student, who ...

We’re gonna go ahead and say it: Anyone who claims they “slept like a baby last night” has never actually slept near a human baby. Baby sleep, especially in the newborn months, isn’t close to being ...

The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like little whispers of joy and wonder to doting parents, are actually signs that the baby's heart is working rhythmically in concert with ...

Jeremy I. Borjon, University of Houston assistant professor of psychology is reporting in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming ...