Yesterday, Lorna told me of a report she heard on All Things Considered. The report was about how humans go from hearing speech to speaking.
Study Illuminates How Babies Learn to Speak
Michelle TrudeauJuly 24, 2006 · A high-tech machine that monitors infants’ brain cells as they listen to speech reveals a key element in how babies go from hearing sounds to speaking them.
From birth, babies’ brains are bathed in the sounds of language. But how do they get from hearing those sounds to speaking them?
That’s what University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl is studying: What happens in the brain that prepares a baby to move from speech perception to speech production?
I like this image they used to link to an interactive multimedia presentation titled “What Lies Beneath“.
