What are the first few words you said when you was a baby or what will be your baby’s first few words? Of course you will guess "Mummy", "papa", "Daddy", "mom" and other such words. Why it is so? A recent Canadian study shows why these are the only first words new-born babies understand.
Led by Judit Gervain of Vancouver's University of British Columbia, her team conducted their research on 44 newborn babies. Using the latest optical brain imaging techniques, they exposed the babies to the...