ZURICH — To outsiders, parents using “baby talk” may seem like they’ve lost their minds. We spend endless hours having one-sided conversations with tiny humans who can’t even hold up their own heads.

Co-authored by Camila Alviar, Ph.D. and Miriam Lense, Ph.D. Infants all over the world become masters of the language their community speaks within the first 3 years of life, a surprisingly short time ...

Experiments with newborn babies suggest they can already recognise their mother tongue, hinting that language learning may begin before birth. “We’ve known for a while that fetuses hear towards the ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has learnt to recognize words such as ‘crib’ and ‘ball’, by studying headcam recordings of a tiny fraction of a single baby’s life. The results indicate that AI ...

A team of cognitive and computer scientists has successfully trained a basic artificial intelligence model to match images to words using just 61 hours of naturalistic footage and sound—previously ...