Watching videos and TV negatively affects language development in toddlers. The corresponding study was published in Acta Paediatrica. While digital media may be useful for connecting with relatives ...

Research shows children with a higher screen time of around five hours a day could learn "significantly" fewer words than ...

If you’re a parent, you know that toddlers have a knack for soaking up everything around them—often to hilarious effect. A recent TikTok video by @savconsidine has gone viral, racking up over 5 ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers say it may be possible to predict future language development outcomes in ...

The Language and Cognition Lab in the Cognitive Science Department needs your help! We're currently recruiting children ages 17 months to 9 years to participate in studies on language development. Our ...

Some toddlers are little chatterboxes, and some are shy and barely speak at all. New research suggests that shy kids understand what is being said to them, but choose to clam up when it comes to ...

While this depends on your family, your child, and your situation, it's most likely that shelter-in-place will not significantly affect your child's language development. "Toddlers are hardwired to ...

A new study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and colleagues reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing ...

A new study shows adult-child conversations have a more significant impact on language development than exposing children to language through monologic reading alone. Adult-child conversations have a ...

Having the television on while you play with your toddler could hinder the child’s language development, according to a new study. Researchers observed interaction between 49 parents and their ...