“Maternal Social Gaze Dynamics Predict Infants’ Language Development”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38113766

The study found that the dynamics of mothers’ social gaze during interactions with 9-month-old infants, but not the infants’ own gaze coordination or dyadic coupling, significantly coordinated with the infants’ cortical activity in “social brain” areas, and were the best predictor of infants’ word segmentation, highlighting the importance of maternal social gaze dynamics in language development.