Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research at Wake Forest University. The study was published in the June 21 issue of Media Psychology.

Toddlers at 15 months begin to learn new words for objects that they’ve never seen, suggests a study. The findings provide evidence that infants can learn words from language alone, say American ...

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Young children learn new words at a tremendous rate. By scanning the brains of sleeping two-year-olds, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that the hippocampus is activated as ...

Screen time has long been a concern for parents, child safety advocates and others, particularly in the early years when a child's brain and language skills are developing. New research from Southern ...