It's the first study to show a relationship between the words children hear at home and the growth of
their neural processing capacities — showing, in effect, that how parents talk to their children changes children's brains.
Haley says the next steps for the research will be to look at whether there are individual differences in the
neural activation of attention and conflict
processing in new mothers that may help or hinder their
capacity to respond sensitively to their own infants» cries.