What Do Infants Learn from Baby Videos? Apparently, not much. After four weeks of viewing a best-selling video featuring common words and household objects, babies hadn’t learned any more words than infants who had never watched the video. As the researchers conclude, “Significantly more learning occurred in the context of everyday parent-child interactions than in front of television screens.”

Source: DeLoache, Judy S.; Chiong, Cynthia; Sherman, Kathleen; Islam, Nadia; Vanderborght, Mieke; Troseth, Georgene L.; Strouse, Gabrielle A.; & O’Doherty, Katherine, Psychological Science, 21:11, pp. 1570-1574, copyright © 2010 by SAGE Publications. Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications.