宝宝Researchers in Cambridge believe that babies learn best when their brain waves are in sync with their parents’。
剑桥研究员相信，当婴儿的脑波和父母同步时，他们的学习效果最好。
The study has also shown that infants are attuned to baby talk and nursery rhymes。
研究还表明，儿语和童谣可以协调婴儿大脑。
The research indicates that babies need to feel safe， secure and loved for brain connections to be properly formed to enable them to learn effectively。
研究表明，婴儿需要感到安全和被爱以使大脑正确形成，这能让他们有效地学习。
The findings are emerging from a baby brain scanning project at Cambridge University。
这些发现来自剑桥大学婴儿大脑扫描项目。
To a newborn， the world is a rush of sights and sounds， an overload of information。 But then the world gradually comes into focus。 Babies soon learn to recognise faces and voices and over the coming months learn how to move， understand language and make sense of what is around them。
对于一个新生儿来说，世界就是一团影像和声音，信息量超负荷。但是随后，世界渐渐开始聚焦。不久，婴儿就能辨识面部和声音，在接下来的几个月里，习得如何移动，理解语言，明白他们周边的一切。
This is a crucial moment in all our lives when important connections are being formed in the brain。
对我们所有人的生命而言，当大脑重要连接形成时，这是一个关键的时刻。
To learn just how this happens， researchers at a baby lab in Cambridge are scanning the brains of babies and their mums while the two are interacting in learning activities。
为了明白这一切是如何发生的，剑桥婴儿实验室的研究员在婴儿和她们的母亲进行学习活动交互时，扫描了婴儿的大脑和他们的母亲的。
The early indications are that when the brain waves of mothers and babies are out of sync， the babies learn less well。 But when the two sets of brainwaves are in tune they seem to learn more effectively。
早期迹象表明，当母亲和婴儿的脑波不同步时，婴儿学习效果不太好。但是当他们的脑波一致时，他们似乎学习效率更高。
Dr Victoria Leong， who is leading the research， has discovered that babies learn well when their mums speak to them in a soothing sing-song voice which she calls “motherese”。
主持这项研究的梁博士发现，当婴儿的母亲用一种舒缓歌咏般的声音和婴儿说话时，婴儿学习效果更好，他把这种声音叫做“妈妈语”。
Dr Leong’s research shows that nursery rhymes are a particularly good way for the mums in her study to get in sync with their babies。
梁博士的研究表明，童谣是母亲和婴儿保持同步的绝佳好方法。
“Although it sounds odd to us， babies really love listening to motherese even more than adult speech。 It holds their attention better and the speech sounds clearer to them。 So we know the more motherese the baby hears， the better the language development，” she said。
她说：“尽管对我们而言，妈妈语听起来有点奇怪，但是比起成人语言，婴儿真的喜欢听妈妈语。妈妈语能够更好的保持他们的注意力，语言也更加清晰。所以我们明白，婴儿听到的妈妈语越多，语言发展越好。”
Dr Leong says the same is undoubtedly true if infants hear baby talk and nursery rhymes from fathers， grandparents and any other carers， but her experiments to date have focused on the interaction between mothers and their babies。
梁博士说，毫无疑问，婴儿听到来自父亲、爷爷奶奶和其它照料者的儿语的效果和妈妈语是一样的，但是她的实验聚焦于妈妈和婴儿间的互动。
本文转自《外研社》
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