Research has revealed that talking to babies can boost their brain power.
Months before babies start to speak, words play an important role in their brain development.
Research has shown that new babies who heard words were better able to categorize pictures than those who simply heard tones.
Almost 50 three-month-old boys and girls were shown a series of pictures of fish, accompanied by either words or beeps.
The babies were then shown pictures of a fish and one of a dinosaur side by side and the researchers measured how long they looked at each image.
Looking at the fish longer than the dinosaur demonstrated they had categorized the fish in their minds.
The babies in the word and tone groups saw exactly the same pictures for exactly the same amount of time, but only those in the word group looked at the fish for longer.
For infants as young as three months of age, words exert a special influence that supports the ability to form a category.
These findings offer the earliest evidence to date for a link between words and object categories.
We think that human speech especially infant-directed speech, instills in young infants a kind of attention to the surrounding objects that promotes categorization.
We feel that over time, this general attentional effect would become more refined, as infants begin to decipher individual words from fluent speech, to distinguish among individual words and kinds of words, and to map those words to meaning.
The remarkable ability of the baby’s brain doesn’t end there. Previous research has concluded they can communicate remarkably complex thoughts at the age of 12 months
Other research has found that newborn babies cry with regional accents copied from their mothers.
The discovery suggested that babies eavesdrop on their parents’ conversations while still in the womb and are picking up their accents.
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