Bilingual environments provide a commonplace example of increased complexity and
uncertainty. Learning multiple languages entails mastery of a larger and more variable …

Abstract This Presidential Address is aimed at considering how infant development can be
understood in terms of developmental cascades. Adopting a developmental cascades …

Background Prenatal maternal anxiety is a known influence on offspring development.
General anxiety and pregnancy-related anxiety (a distinct type of anxiety encompassing …

To effectively contain the spread of COVID-19, public health agencies mandated special
regulations. Although they protected us from COVID-19, these restrictions have inevitably …

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, both the public and researchers have raised questions
regarding the potential impact of protective face-mask wearing on infants' development …

The article presents the discussion on impact of COVID-19 on infant development. Topics
include devastating health impacts showing the pandemic having substantial impacts on …

Emotional facial expressions convey crucial information in nonverbal communication and
serve as a mediator in face-to-face relationships. Their recognition would rely on specific …

Consonants and vowels have been proposed to have distinct functions in speech
perception: a consonant bias for lexical processing and a vowel bias for syntactic/prosodic …