{"id":241962,"date":"2026-07-31T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/infants-eye-contact-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:18:54","slug":"infants-eye-contact-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/infants-eye-contact-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language","title":{"rendered":"Infants eye contact \u2018tune in\u2019 to speaker\u2019s brainwaves and learn language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/infants-eye-contact-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists have shown.<\/p>\n<p>Infants are surrounded by a vast range of stimuli that compete for their attention \u2013 sights, sounds, voices \u2013 and must somehow work out which things are worth paying attention to and learning from. To do this, they often rely on social cues \u2013 eye contact, \u2018baby speak\u2019 or someone calling their name, for example \u2013 but how this helps with learning is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have previously shown that when an infant and adult make eye contact, their brainwaves synchronise with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists have shown. Infants are surrounded by a vast range of stimuli that compete for their attention \u2013 sights, sounds, voices \u2013 and must somehow work out which things are worth paying attention [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}