A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...

Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably ...

New research shows that play sessions with music improved babies' brain processing of both music and new speech sounds. Rock your baby in sync with music and you may wonder how the experience affects ...