Babies´ brains knowledge

The recent experiments done by Psychologist Whitney Weikum and researchers from the university of British Columbia and Katherine Kinzler and her colleges from Harvard University, have shown that between four to six month, babies have the ability to distinguished among the sounds of unfamiliar languages. Having also found that they start loosing this ability after their first year.  The researchs showed that young infants can tell the difference between the sound of different languages through some experiments.  In the case of Weikum´s experiment, babies were exposed to different silent video clips in which French-English speakers read out the same sentence in one of the two languages. once the babies become accustomed, Weikum showed them different clips of the same speakers reading out new sentences. Due to this, babies spend more time looking at the speaker on their screen, which showed that they had noticed the language changed, based only on lip movement.  On the c...