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BABIES RECOGNIZE RELATED WORDS

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:00:28 +0000

A new Duke University study finds that, by six to nine months, babies can already recognize that the meanings of some words, such as “car” and “stroller,” are more alike than other words, such as “car” and “juice.” “Even though there aren’t many overt signals of language knowledge in babies, language is definitely developing furiously under the surface,” said Dr. ...

STRESSED INFANTS FEEL, BUT DON’T SHOW, MORE PAIN

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:39:34 +0000

Stressed infants have increased pain brain activity, but this stress was not linked with their behavior, researchers found. Infants with high levels of stress exhibited larger “amplitude cortical nociceptor responses”, or responses to pain, but it was not correlated with “nociceptive behavior,” or behavior exhibiting pain, as measured by brain activity and facial expressions, reported Laura Jones, MD, of University ...

INFANTS PROCESS PAIN IN THEIR BRAINS IN DIFFERENT WAYS BASED ON AGE

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:16:55 +0000

Relying on behavioral indicators, such as crying, to assess pain in infants underestimates how much pain babies actually feel when they undergo stressful medical procedures. This has long-term implications on brain development and impacts future adult pain sensitivity, according to a British neurobiologist speaking at the American Pain Society Scientific Summit. “Infants respond to noxious stimulation from birth, but the ...

A PRESCRIPTION FOR TOUCH: EARLY EXPERIENCES SHAPE PRETERM BABIES’ BRAINS

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:32:35 +0000

Newborn babies experience the world through touch. Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants—including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full-term—show that a baby’s earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home. The findings reported in Current Biology are yet ...

UNDER STRESS, NEWBORN BABIES SHOW GREATER BRAIN RESPONSE TO PAIN

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:33:40 +0000

When newborn babies are under stress, their brains show a heightened response to pain, a new study has found. However, you’d never know it from the way those infants act. The findings reported in Current Biology on November 30 show that stress leads to an apparent disconnect between babies’ brain activity and their behavior. “When newborn babies experience a painful ...

MOTHERS’ AND BABIES’ BRAINWAVES SYNCHRONIZE WHEN THEY GAZE AT EACH OTHER

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:23:20 +0000

Scientists have discovered that making eye contact with babies synchs their brainwaves with adults and could help them to learn and communicate more easily. Researchers already knew that when parents interact with their children their emotions and heart rate synchronize but they have never tested it with the brain until now. In a study of babies and their mothers, scientists ...

STUDY SHOWS BABIES WHO GET MORE CUDDLES HAVE THEIR GENETICS CHANGED FOR YEARS

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:28:38 +0000

The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn’t just keep them warm, snug, and loved. A new study says it can actually affect babies at the molecular level, and the effects can last for years. Based on the study, babies who get less physical contact and are more distressed at a young age, end up with ...

BABIES CAN TELL HOW BADLY YOU WANT SOMETHING: PART ONE

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:14:17 +0000

According to a new study from MIT and Harvard University, babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it. This ability requires integrating information about both the costs of obtaining a goal and the benefit gained by the person seeking it, suggesting ...

CRYING BABIES PUSH SAME ‘BUTTONS’ IN MOTHERS’ BRAINS NO MATTER THE CULTURE

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:04:44 +0000

This study analyzes videotapes of 684 mothers in 11 countries interacting with their infants, who were around 5 months old. The research found that mothers in 11 countries tend to react the same way to their crying infant—by picking up and talking to the baby—and that the way mothers respond seems to be programmed into their brain circuits. The observations ...

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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:49:57 +0000

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FACTS EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEIR BABY’S BRAIN

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:52:20 +0000

All babies are born too early If it weren’t for the size limitations of a woman’s pelvis, babies would stay developing in the womb for considerably longer, comparative biologists have suggested. Some pediatricians label a baby’s first three months of life as the “fourth trimester” of pregnancy to emphasize how needy, and yet devoid of social skills, babies are at ...

BABIES RETAIN THEIR EARLY EXPOSURE TO FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:00:40 +0000

Babies may be more language-savvy than scientists thought: A study of people who were adopted as babies suggests that infants younger than 6 months may grasp crucial abstract information about their native tongue. They seem to store this information for years even if they don’t hear their native language in the interim. In the study, published in the journal Proceedings ...