Babies need free tongue movement to decipher speech sounds

Monday, October 12, 2015 - 18:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor movements and auditory speech perception.

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