The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

by Bruce H. Lipton

University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl’s studies make it clear that infants need adults in their lives to learn language effectively. Though weary parents may sometimes wish they could buy a video that has the same effect as engaging one-on-one with their child, it turns out there is no substitute for parents interacting with their infants and young children. In one study, Kuhl exposed nine-month-old children from English-speaking families to Mandarin. Some of the children interacted with native Chinese-speaking tutors, who played with them and read to them. A second group saw and heard the same Mandarin-speaking tutors through a video presentation. The third group heard only the audio track. After twelve sessions, the children were tested on their ability to discriminate between similar phonetic sounds in Mandarin. Children exposed to the language through human interactions were able to discriminate between similar Mandarin sounds as well as native listeners. Children in the other two groups learned nothing. The result of this and other studies has led Kuhl to propose the social gating hypothesis: the idea that an interactive social experience, i.e., conversation, is a portal to linguistic, cognitive, and emotional development. (Kuhl 2011)

La importancia de la interacción