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The Effects of Talking to Babies on Brain Structure

New research suggests that a baby's brain structure is shaped to some degree by the amount of adult speech they hear. Professor John Spencer from the University of East Anglia led a team that studied 87, 6-month-old and 76, 30-month-olds. They used a recorder inside a vest to measure how much speech they were exposed to at home.

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