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Babies Can Start 'Mind Reading' Before Age 2 (Study)

published 01.29.2013 LiveScience

 

Even babies as young as a year-and-a-half can guess what other people are thinking, new research suggests. To find out, the researchers studied children in three communities in  China, Fiji and Ecuador from 19 months to about 5 years. 

 

Early development 

The findings show that children develop this mind-reading ability years earlier than previously thought and that this development looks the same across many different cultures.

 

 

The Self-Motivated Baby Book 

From a developmental movement perspective the preverbal baby's expressive cues and signals (body language) that I will be including in my book demonstrate babies know more than this -- and earlier!  Babies are not just reading minds! When babies are engaged in a social interaction with an adult they know, a baby can also direct the attention of the adult through their expressive communication. 

 

...and on a relevant note from the book 'How the Body Shapes the Mind by Shaun Gallagher - "Before children attain a theory of mind, they already have an embodied understanding of other people."