When your baby cries uncontrollably, it’s easy to wonder why they can’t just settle down. But biologically, babies aren’t designed to calm themselves. Their brains are still developing, especially the ...

From the very first moment a baby is placed in a parent’s arms, their emotional world begins to take shape. Newborns may not speak or smile purposefully, yet they absorb everything around them. Their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Covariate-corrected relationships between WM diffusion tensor measures and the infant emotionality and emotional regulation development (solid lines as regression lines, brighter shadowed area as ...

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new ...

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 ...