Small study finds toddlers take longer to respond to prompts while playing on a tablet. 63 toddlers were given a tablet and joint attention prompts. They took longer to acknowledge requests when playing games. Researchers suggest touch-screens may inhibit their early communication.

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Scientists find that children whose families use screens a lot have weaker vocabulary skills — and videogames have the biggest negative effect. Research shows that during the first years of life, the most influential factor is everyday dyadic face-to-face parent-child verbal interaction

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A study of 4- to 5-year-old children in Spain found that participants who were breastfed as infants, for 1 to 8 months, tended to have better cognitive abilities. These children had higher IQs, better working memory, nonverbal abilities, and cognitive proficiency.

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Research shows finger counting may improve math skills in kindergarten: trained kids who didn't originally count on their fingers saw correct responses jump from 37% to 77%, compared to non-finger users in the control group, whose correct responses only went from 40% to 48%

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Newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like rules. This study provides long-sought evidence that the ability to perceive dependencies between non-adjacent acoustic signals is innate.

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Babies can form memories using encoding in the hippocampus that's similar to how adults remember

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have interfered with young children’s (2,5 to 6,5 years) ability to stay focused, regulate their behavior, and adapt to new situations

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🧸 A home with a wide variety and quantity of toys is linked to better interaction abilities and early language development in infants, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

👩‍🏫 A diverse toy environment correlated with higher maternal teaching levels, where mothers provided more supportive cognitive feedback and engaged in behaviors like naming objects and explaining reasons.

😌 Infants in homes with richer toy environments scored higher on the "low-intensity pleasure" temperament scale and showed more advanced social and emotional regulation skills, such as empathy.

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Why story and play time really matter for toddlers. Comparing moments with periods spent watching a movie together, the study found that those playful, interactive moments are associated with increased brain activity linked to attention, learning and social processing.

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