Phonemes are the most basic units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a given language, and every language has its own set. In English, for example, we have the /b/as in bat or /p/ as in pat and the /i/ in pit as well as the /ī/ in lie. The...
DECEMBER 2023 Welcome to Our Second Neuroscience in the Nursery Newsletter! In this issue, we are describing how the young brain’s auditory experience in the first year forms the foundation for learning to read a few years down the road. We also provide a few...
Yes, they do! Half of the time that infants sleep is spent as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. In fact, babies spend twice as much time in REM as adults do. That amount of REM or “active” sleep makes a lot of sense because it encourages the “plasticity” or...
Image by jcomp on Freepik Your baby should be learning speech from you, not the other way around – so ditch baby talk for parentese! We all know that baby’s first attempts at words are often jumbled, kind of imprecise imitations of what they hear from the adults in...
The sounds babies hear during sleep have a huge impact on their brains. Here’s why. A substantial amount of brain development occurs in response to outside stimuli At birth, the infant brain is stocked with billions and billions of neurons, but the connections among...
NOVEMBER 2023 Welcome to Our First Neuroscience in the Nursery Newsletter! In every issue, we will be bringing you insights into child development from scientists who are doing cutting-edge research that lets us better understand young brains and how we can best...
