Making an immensely amazing disclosure, a recently concluded research, which was carried out by researchers from the Florida Atlantic University, has claimed that babies do not learn to talk merely by hearing sounds but there’s much more to it than just being able to talk by hearing sounds as they're excellent lip readers too.

It generally takes place during that extraordinary phase when the babbling of a baby gradually transforms from claptrap to syllables and sooner or later, the gibberish sound changes into that first syllables "mama" or "dada".

The scientists from Florida have recently discovered that starting from an average age of 6 months; babies generally tend to start changing from the purposeful eye gaze they used to have during early infancy to understanding worlds by lip reading, also known as studying mouths, at the time they find someone talking to them.

While expressing his opinion regarding the findings of the study, the lead researcher of the study and a developmental psychologist at the university, David Lewkowicz, said: “The baby in order to imitate you has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they're hearing”. During the course of study, which was made available on Monday in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, the experts said: “It's an incredibly complex process”. “It's a pretty intriguing finding”, claimed Professor Bob McMurray, of the University of Iowa’s psychology department.

Perhaps, it does not take them massive time for absorbing the lip movements that are identical to some fundamental sounds. By the time of their first birth anniversary, babies generally start reacting on hearing a familiar sound; they will react every time you call their name. At that point in time, they stick with lip reading a bit longer.