Neural processing in the brains of parents talking to their babies may reveal secrets about early stages of talk acquisition in infants. This proper to findings by researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science establishment and their collaborators, which show for the first time that experience, gender and big man affect how parents process the speech they use when addressing infants. Infant-directed speech (IDS), also known as "baby talk", is a style of speech used by adults to address infants, characterized by high-pitched, articulated intonation and a simplified lexicon...

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