Scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke are tracking children from birth to age 10 to understand how factors like maternal health, environment and substance use shape the ...

Parents and early educators play an active role in fostering a child's healthy brain development through responsive ...

“Researchers in child development and neuroscience now have at their fingertips rich, longitudinal brain, behavioral and ...

Most teachers worldwide still believe myths about learning decades after they have been debunked. Here are the most common.

We are living in an age of increasing dysregulation. Across the United States, communities are grappling with escalating ...

Studies reveal that when handwriting automaticity is achieved, it enhances the cognitive and "free-flowing" intellectual ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...