A new longitudinal study found that individuals who were maltreated as children tended to have poorer performance on ...

The first few years of a child’s life is critical to their overall development, so that’s why many parents are concerned with making sure their child develops the cognitive abilities they need early ...

A premature start in life can cause problems even into teenage years. A study indicates that training motor skills in these children helps even when they are older. A premature start in life can cause ...

The capacity to think in private has been fundamental to human development. As AI systems comprehensively capture children's ...

The study of mathematics has been shown to improve cognitive development in school-age children, helping them to acquire problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. As the world commemorates, World ...

Agnieszka Jaroslawska receives funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC). Cognitive difficulties are very common in children from impoverished backgrounds, putting them at risk of educational ...

Here’s what the researchers discovered: Longer daily screen time at age 9-10 predicted increased ADHD symptoms two years ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...