Turn taking, naming feelings, cooperating and waiting.
Imitating a face requires matching what is seen on someone else to a movement felt in one's own body, without ever having seen one's own face. It is a…
5 minThis back-and-forth is what researchers call serve and return, and it is the single most studied ingredient of early brain development. Responding to a baby's…
5 minGive-and-take is turn-taking made physical, and it is the earliest form of the reciprocity that conversation and friendship later depend on. Doing it with…
6 minGestures arrive before words and carry the same communicative work. A wave tied to a real departure is learned as meaning something, whereas a wave drilled on…
4 minLong before a baby can use emotion words, hearing their internal state named consistently builds the link between the feeling and the label. Children whose…
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