Co-authored with Alyssa Swift, M.S. In the current post, we are returning to our lab’s roots investigating the foundations of emotional development that occur in infancy. We know that infants have an ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press research article, scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ...

When your baby is fussy, what do you instinctively do? Most likely, you start singing. Researchers have now confirmed what parents have always sensed: singing to your baby significantly boosts their ...

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby’s mood, according to a recent Yale study published May 28 in Child Development. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to ...

Many parents believe emotional intelligence starts later in childhood when babies learn to talk, share, or interact with others. In reality, the foundations of emotional intelligence begin to form on ...

The infant cradling bias refers to the widespread tendency among caregivers to hold infants preferentially on the left side. This side bias is thought to reflect the right hemisphere’s specialisation ...