Visual and Cognitive Development Project

Here is a news clip about the bilingual effect on visual attention study:

Babies who hear more than one language develop attention advantage: study A study says babies exposed to more than one language in the home are more attentive than infants who hear only a single language.

We have been busy at the Project. We have recently published 2 articles. One explores the role of being raised in a bilingual environment on 6-month-old infants' visual attention. The other study explored 6-month-old infants' ability to mentally process and then discriminate predictable events on the basis of a difference of just 500 milliseconds (half a second) in the duration of a visual event.

We have recently published what we believe is a groundbreaking research showing differences between babies born by Caesarean section versus those born vaginally in their ability to move attention to objects and events that occur in their visual world. (If you want to see the original article, let me know and I will post it).

A number of news outlets are doing stories on this finding. Below is the link for the first one, from the Toronto Sun.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/11/c-section-can-impact-babys-ability-to-concentrate-study