3 Month Babies Can Distinguish Emotions in Voice

Although still tiny and can not speak, it turns out since the age of 3 months your baby can understand the emotions of people around him just by listening.

The ability to recognize emotion in the voice does not automatically controlled by the baby from birth. But experts do not know exactly when the baby learns to recognize emotions. In a study using brain scans revealed that 21 infants infants' brain activity rose at the sound emotional.

Parts of the brain called the limbic respond more strongly to the sound of a negative or sad. The same response was not found at the sound of a neutral or happy.

"The results of this study specifically indicate certain areas of the brain mature at a very early age," said Dr.Evelyne Mercure from University College London.

Experts hope the results of this research can be developed to understand what happens in the brains of autistic and normal children. "By understanding the brain systems that normally expected we increasingly recognize if something goes wrong," he said.


sources:
BBC