A groundbreaking new study by neuroscientists and developmental psychologists at the University of Chicago has identified a direct link between neural responses from the motor system and overt social behavior in infants. The April 2016 study, “Motor System Activation...

An innovative collaboration between neuroscientists and developmental psychologists that investigated how infants’ brains process other people’s action provides the first evidence that directly links neural responses from the motor system to overt social behavior in...

Being bilingual has some obvious advantages. Learning more than one language enables new conversations and new experiences. But in recent years, psychology researchers have demonstrated some less obvious advantages of bilingualism, too. For instance, bilingual...

The Center for Early Childhood Research was busy in 2015! We have so many exciting new studies to share with you. Check out what we have been up to in our yearly newsletter: https://uchicago.box.com/s/my7zm3s18hdugx9sj5c2g1qiuizsw523 Newsletter 2015 Picture_Page_01Our...

Your child may be engrossed with his Baby Einstein Take-Along Tunes or trying to escape from the grocery cart. But he’s listening, processing and willing to teach us. In a recent study of 19-month-olds, University of Chicago doctoral student Lauren Howard found that...

Experiencing diverse communities by hearing different languages at the park, on a bus or in the grocery store may make babies more open-minded in their social learning, a new study finds. While previous research has shown that direct interactions with parents and...

The Society for Research and Child Development Biennial Meeting was held from April 18th-20th in Seattle, WA. The Infant Learning and Development Lab presented posters and participated in symposia at this meeting. Below are some pictures and links to...

An article in UChicago News about a study conducted in The Infant Learning and Development Lab and The Development of Social Cognition Lab! Even before babies have language skills or much information about social structures, they can infer whether others are likely to...

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