Tag: Infants

  • Nation & World

    When babies see people swap spit, they know what’s what

    Infants deduce that people are in a close relationship if they witness interactions like kissing and taking bites of each other’s food.

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    Woman putting finger in puppet's mouth.
  • Nation & World

    How the pandemic may affect baby’s brain

    For babies born during this pandemic, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests their brains may not fully develop.

    1 minute
    Baby smiling.
  • Nation & World

    Sounding out speech

    A new study demonstrates that infants as young as 6 months can solve the invariance problem in speech perception.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New support for nursing mothers

    Harvard has had lactation rooms on both the Cambridge and Harvard Longwood campuses for more than a decade. It most recently added two additional rooms and updated three others. The most recent room opened in Widener Library.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Big thinkers

    Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants younger than a year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when two individuals’ goals conflict.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Keeping HIV out of the cradle

    A Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative trial that gave HIV-positive mothers in Botswana antiretroviral drugs during the months after birth showed a dramatic reduction in the transmission of the virus from mothers to breast-fed babies.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Often, we are what we were

    In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

    3 minutes