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Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
It makes sense that at 6 months, babies begin observing lip movement, Lewkowicz says, because that's about the time babies' brains gain the ability to control their attention rather than automatically look toward noise.
"The baby in order to imitate you has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they're hearing," explains developmental psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study being published Monday. "It's an incredibly complex process."
