Three researchers will receive support this year from the Sabbatical Fund Fellowship from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.

The Thrive by Five Index 2024 provides a critical snapshot of how four-year-olds across the country are developing across ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for tracking early childhood brain development. Charts mapped the maturation ...

Tallie Z. Baram receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Bren Foundation, and the Hewitt Foundation for Biomedical Research. Scientists have long known that the experiences you ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

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