It sounds like a soft, melodious “murmur” — most cat owners have heard their pets cooing or trilling. However, very few know that there is a special meaning behind the sound. PETBOOK editor and cat ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Infants' vocalizations throughout the first year follow a set of predictable steps from crying and cooing to forming syllables and first words. However, previous research had not ...

Scientists in Australia recorded the first ever audio of echidna vocalizations, a sound which may be linked to reproduction, a study said. Photo from Michael Jerrard via Unsplash As three spiky ...

Catherine Laing works for Cardiff University. She received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. We know that babies prefer the high-pitched sounds produced by their caregivers in ...

Manhattanites who visited the Whitney Museum of American Art were surprised last week by an exhibition of children’s art in which there was no cooing or babbling. It came from a Progressive ...

Infant vocalizations are primarily motivated by infants' ability to hear their own babbling, research shows. Additionally, infants with profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants to help ...