Babies´ brains knowledge

Throughout the next blog  are going to explain the ability that babies have to differenciate sounds between languages, from  four to six months . Moreover, we are going to develop the most important theories about baby's brain development, explaining the  experiments in which babies are exposed to different types of languages and we observe how they react in all the cases. The recent experiments done by Psychologist Whitney Weikum and researchers from the university of British Columbia and Katherine Kinzler and her colleagues from Harvard University, have shown that between four to six months, babies have the ability to distinguish among the sounds of unfamiliar languages. Having also found that they start loosing this ability after their first year.  The research 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 v...

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...