A new study by a New York University professor suggests perceptual maturity in infants develops in the early months after birth as a result of piecing together fragments of the visual scene. The ...

A new research lab, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will soon open to help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception ...

Infant face processing is a cornerstone of early perceptual and social development. From the first months of life, infants exhibit a predisposition for recognising and differentiating faces, an ...

The conventional view of development in human infancy is that objective awareness of the surrounding world is gradually constructed during the first 2 years through the infant's actions on the ...

Previous research has demonstrated that organizational principles become functional over different time courses of development: Lightness similarity is available at 3 months of age, but form ...

Behind the scenes at the Cornell baby lab, psychologist Scott P. Johnson monitors progress of a perception experiment. The video monitor at left shows the baby who is tracking a moving object on a ...

Young babies get a bad rap. They’re helpless, fickle and noisy. And even though they allegedly sleep for 16 hours a day, those hours come in 20-minute increments. Yet hidden in the chaos of a young ...