Baby behavior at 7 months may predict adult thinking skills, according to research on twins and early cognitive development.

A study involving more than 1,000 twins suggests that the environment during very early life plays a more important role than ...

A new study has found that girls as young as eight or nine years old already have a tendency to notice and respond to numbers ...

We can't see what other people are thinking, so we have to infer it and that's very crucial for our communication as humans.

Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be ...

Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three ...

Brain development, social-emotional and cognitive skills are dramatically influenced through children's earliest relationships.

By age 30, those early assessments accounted for about 13% of the variance in adult cognitive scores, with environment in the ...

Abbott, the global healthcare leader, announced the launch of a campaign to educate and empower parents with information to help them raise fast learners. At an interactive cognitive play workshop ...

A new study suggests that cognitive preferences in infants, such as a liking for novel objects and task focus, could predict ...

The latest Australian Early Development Census results show we are going backwards in all five key areas, sparking calls for ...