Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing brains. New research from cognitive neuroscientists provides a clear answer. The ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Are you concerned about how much your child naps? Or maybe they don't nap enough? A study from the U.K.'s University of ...

Strong memory skills help children perform better academically and build confidence in daily life. Instead of relying solely on textbooks, parents can use creative activities to sharpen kids’ memory ...

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 ...

AI is now embedded in the developmental windows when children's cognitive capacities form. The teenagers are the ones most ...

Rain Bosworth, who was diagnosed as deaf as a child, grew up surrounded by a loving hearing family. Her lifelong experience in this environment has become the driving force behind her research into ...

Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together. Reading aloud to children can be an accessible ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves. Once ...

The average number of children per family in the United States has fallen dramatically, from seven in 1800 to fewer than two in 2018. That’s good news for kids’ cognitive development, suggests a ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can impact many common childhood milestones and cognitive processes, such as decision-making, inhibitory control, language development, and goal-setting.