NewsHalf a year after the childbirth more than 6% of parents have shaken their baby violently in the hope that it would stop crying. Discovering how parents react to both laughing and crying babies is therefore necessary. Research carried out by Madelon Riem has demonstrated the role of the hormone oxytocin in child-parent interaction.
Certain meditation techniques can promote creative thinking. This is the outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University, published 19 April in the open access journalist 'Frontiers in Cognition'.
The Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) is concentrating increasingly on research into the role of the brain in language development. The institute has now set up the LIBC Language website that brings together all the information on this research.