Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...

Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory includes four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. In the sensorimotor stage, a child learns object permanence ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Nature vs. nurture is a framework used to examine how genetics (nature) and environmental factors (nurture) influence human development and personality traits. Nature vs. nurture isn't a ...

Here is another idea about how language arose. As pitch-based communication is widespread among non-human animals, could language have developed from similar-pitched Tarzan-like calls specific to a ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

1 School of Educational Studies, University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, East Java, Indonesia Language classrooms are embedded with a wide range of ...

MIAMI — Like his favorite American politician, Alexander Otaola unsuccessfully contested the election results when he lost his bid to become mayor of Miami-Dade County this summer. The Cuban-born ...

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the communication challenges and cultural retention within immigrant Nepalese families in the UK, focusing on the language barriers between Nepal-born parents and ...