Babies lip-read
ecthompsonmd
January 17, 2012
This is a very cool finding which is obvious to everyone who has studied babies. Sometimes it seems as if they are staring at your lips. They are playing with your lips while you are talking. Now, we know what they are doing. From WaPo: Babies don’t learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they’re lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby’s babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first “mama” or “dada.” Florida scientists discovered that starting around age 6 months, babies begin shifting from the intent eye gaze
