Infant Colour Perception

Just read an article about what colours babies like. This could help with expecting parents to decide on what to paint the nursery, toys, clothes and furniture selection.Babies can distinguish colour from white at 2 months. They were able to detect blue and purple more than green, yellow and red.

I guess Barney really has it good...

Original article from Cognitive Daily, Science Blogs by Greta Munger.

Babel

Babies can distinguish their native language and accent at as early as five months. Ed Yong reviewed on several child development studies...

From 4 to 6 months, infants react when a muted video clip of a person speaking changes language. Babies generally lose this ability at 8 months unless they are expose to multiple languages. Another study showed a child's ability to gesture at 14 months can predict their vocabulary a age 4 and 5. These findings suggest it is important to spend time with your baby and use visual cues and gestures to help them gain skills early on.

Original articles

first language and accent
Early Childhood Gesture and Affluence.