Explore child development through neuroscience and psychology: attachment, learning, emotions, and how early environments shape the developing brain.
How do our earliest emotional and sensory experiences shape not only the developing brain but also the deepest layers of our subjectivity, influencing our capacity to feel, think and create? Early childhood does more than shape memories, it builds the architecture of the brain itself.Through emotional interactions and neural development, it lays the foundations of…
The language of the body comes before words. In early childhood, gestures, rhythms, and touch create a lasting emotional memory that structures the social brain. Attachment begins long before speech emerges. It is woven through daily bodily exchanges, a shared gaze, a hand resting on the skin, a breathing rhythm that slowly synchronizes over the…
Is altruism learned, or is it innate? Neuroscience suggests that even before language, children display spontaneous helping behaviors. Born from the need to live together, the human brain thinks, feels, and acts in constant relation with others. Shaped by social life, it deciphers intentions, shares emotions, and continuously adjusts its behavior to those around it….
The body is the child’s first learning tool.Through movement and exploration, children develop motor, emotional, and cognitive abilities simultaneously. To grow is to conquer, step by step physically and mentally,It’s a long and delicate choreography, where every gesture attempted, every movement explored, and every balance achieved helps shape the child. Long before learning to read…
Academic failure is more than a grade.For some adolescents, it can deeply affect self-esteem, shaped by social pressure and external judgment. She was only 14. That morning, she woke up like any other day. But something had changed. The day before, the results came in, she had failed her final exam for the third year…
What happens when a child grows up without language, connection, or human contact?The story of Victor, the wild child, highlights how brain development depends on early interaction and critical periods. In 1799, deep within a forest in southwestern France, villagers witnessed a scene reminiscent of a bygone era: a child, naked, filthy, his hair tangled,…