Study: Babies May “Practice” Words Before Talking

July 16, 2014

Lead study author Patricia Kuhn, co-director of the Institute, says that finding “activation in the motor areas of the brain when infants are simply listening is significant.” Kuhn believes this indicates that the baby’s brain is engaged in trying to talk back right away, and the infant is attempting to figure out how to correctly speak the words.

With a non-invasive brain scanner, Kuhn and her colleagues…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

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