What the [beep]? Infants link new communicative signals to meaning

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 11:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers have long known that adults can flexibly find new ways to communicate, for example, using smoke signals or Morse code to communicate at a distance, but a new Northwestern University study is the first to show that this same communicative flexibility is evident even in 6-month-olds. The researchers set out to discover whether infants […]

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