The awareness of the baby's environment develops sooner than previously thought

Living with a baby is amazing. See how this little person evolves in his day to day and appreciate changes in each day with him is something indescribable. But according to the investigation carried out by the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the mind of children at these ages is even more surprising.

The study carried out by both studies has revealed that the minds of these children are develops at a faster rate than previously thought. The data found show that babies are aware of their environment and that everything that surrounds them is far from being something fuzzy and meaningless for them, so that stimulation at these ages could be exploited even more.


Learn to make an effort

The study published in the magazine Science He brought together a group of several 10-month-old babies who showed different videos starring cartoons where one character had to reach another by saving an obstacle: a wall, a higher height, a ramp, etc. After checking how the viewing had influenced, the researchers found that the babies had gotten the message: to get something, you have to pass some test.

That is, children understand that on their way they can appear obstacles, who understand that some elements of their environment can be a hindrance to their objectives. These results are interesting for a double reason, the first is the fact that babies do not see their surroundings as something fuzzy in that they can not identify shapes.


Another aspect discovered, and much more interesting, is that babies are able to understand that sometimes you have to overcome obstacles. A piece of information that suggests that children learn the value of effort younger ages. "This research shows that the relationship between effort invested and its result appears earlier than any researcher has found before," the authors of this research explain in a statement.

Speech development

This is not the first research that focuses on the development of babies' minds. Another study from Duke University and has shown that the language is in the minors appears at a higher speed than previously thought. However, this learning that occurs at the mental level does not translate into the surface, that is, babies understand words and are able to connect them, but can not reproduce them. A novelty that can change the way many parents communicate with their newborn children.


A study based on eye tracking to check the response of the babies to the auditory stimuli that came to them in the form of words. For this purpose, a group of 40 children of early ages was chosen, who were told several words and the reaction to them was noted through the eyes with which they responded.

The objective was to see if the children's eyes related the word they had just been told with an image they had on a screen in front of them. For example, if they listened "pen"Your eyes had to focus on the photograph of one of these items on the monitor." The tests also showed that children were more likely to make an accurate relationship when the term was daily.

In this way, parents are encouraged to talk with their children so that several words are more common to them. This finding opens a way in the language development since it could suppose that the boy begins to speak having in his mind a great vocabulary of terms that dominates and relates to the reality.

Damián Montero

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