Imagine seeing the world through the eyes of a six-month-old child. You don’t have the words to describe anything. How could you possibly begin to understand language, when each sound that comes out ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...

Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen receives funding from ARC Grant #FT190100243. Alice Nelson receives funding from ARC grant #FT190100243 and the ANU Futures Scheme for this research. Carmel OShannessy ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, ...

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

Kateřina Chládková has received external funding from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Science Foundation, and the Czech Ministry of Education. She consults for and co-develops the Mooveez ...

A wonder baby is using sign language to communicate with her deaf grandparents. Jane McCullough, a 6-month-old tot, has gone viral after her mom posted a TikTok of her daughter “babbling in sign ...

What the study found was that a small increase in exposure resulted in quite a big difference. This post appeared first in Mamasuncut - visit the original post here: A mother's voice could be the key ...

If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, you have participated in a special experience. Indeed, it’s an all but unique one: Whereas humans constantly chatter to their infants, other apes hardly ever do so, a ...