. . . looking a baby right in the eyes: Pat Kuhl

[MiaKalish - LFP]

Pat Kuhl says that babies watch your face and eyes, and then model what they
see in their minds. When they have mapped the physical movements to what
they see (she is working on describing this internal mapping mechanism more
precisely) then they exhibit the movements. Thus much, much more is
happening beneath the surface, and long before anything is actually visible.

This is a gem from my psychology days. Pat Kuhl is worth checking out for
all the language learning people. She is great. And Right-On!

Mia

PS: By the way, Phil, thanks for your tireless devotion in finding things
and sending them along to the rest of us. I know Sue appreciates you; I just
wanted to send along a small at-a-boy from a list member. :-)


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Subject: It all starts by looking a baby right in the eyes (fwd link)


> It all starts by looking a baby right in the eyes
> The origin of language stemmed from relationships, not genes
> By Ruth Walker
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0914/p11s01-bogn.html
>
> [a book review - THE FIRST IDEA: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence
> Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans By Stanley
> Greenspan and Stuart Shanker, Da Capo Press, 320 pp., $25]
>
>