What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research supports the view that the effects of the pandemic on preschoolers' development are not so dire. (Photo illustration: ...

Parental involvement is effective in improving lower-income preschoolers’ cognitive development, according to a study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...

CHILDREN COME INTO THE WORLD eager to learn. The first five years of life are a time of enormous growth of linguistic, conceptual, social, emotional, and motor competence. Right from birth a healthy ...

Researchers report that 4-6-year-old children who walk further than their peers during a timed test - a method used to estimate cardiorespiratory health - also do better on cognitive tests and other ...

In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers suggest that younger children may face fewer challenges than initially feared.Researchers in Canada used data from the Ontario Birth Study ...