Very preterm infants face up to a 50% higher risk of developmental challenges affecting movement, learning, language and ...

A baby is born with vision, but it is far from fully developed. At birth, newborn eyesight is blurry, and babies mainly see shades of black, white, and grey. They can only concentrate on objects about ...

What do infants see? What do they look at? The answers to these questions are very different for the youngest babies than they are for older infants, children and adults. Characterized by a few ...

Determining what infants recognize in the things they see has been difficult. Using brain imaging and deep neural networks, we found that in 2-month-old infants the visual system represented not only ...

Things are busy on a rainy Saturday afternoon when I make a trip to the mall to finalize some back-to-school shopping. I pass by a lot of people, including several parents with young children under ...

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, USA, 3 June 2025 – In a comprehensive Genomic Press research article, scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant ...

Infant sleep patterns and emotional regulation are important for healthy development, but it is challenging to get real-time insights into infant behavior. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

UW–Madison researchers found prenatal Zika exposure can cause subtle vision, hearing and social-emotional issues in infant monkeys, even without birth defects.