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Infants give mother tongue new meaning

ANNE McILROY — SCIENCE REPORTER
From Friday’s Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010

The newborns slept peacefully, cradled in the arms of their mothers, while researchers gently attached 128 electrodes to their tiny heads. Each infant then heard two recordings, one of their mom pronouncing a single syllable and one of a female nurse making the same sound. But the reaction in their brains – as recorded by the electrodes – was completely different, scientists at the University of Montreal discovered.

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