{"id":242065,"date":"2026-08-02T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/eye-contact-helps-infants-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:25:15","slug":"eye-contact-helps-infants-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/eye-contact-helps-infants-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language","title":{"rendered":"Eye contact helps infants \u2018tune in\u2019 to speaker\u2019s brainwaves and learn language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-contact-helps-infants-tune-in-to-speakers-brainwaves-and-learn-language.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronize their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists in Cambridge and Singapore have shown.<\/p>\n<p>Infants are surrounded by a vast range of stimuli that compete for their attention\u2014sights, sounds and voices\u2014and must somehow work out which things are worth paying attention to and learning from. To do this, they often rely on social cues\u2014eye contact, \u201cbaby talk\u201d or someone calling their name, for example\u2014but how this helps with learning is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Leong and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, have previously shown that when an infant and adult make eye contact, their brainwaves synchronize 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 synchronize their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists in Cambridge and Singapore have shown. Infants are surrounded by a vast range of stimuli that compete for their attention\u2014sights, sounds and voices\u2014and must somehow work out which things are worth paying [\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-242065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242065","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=242065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}