Sleeping babies ‘tune into voices’

BABIES tune in to human voices even when they are asleep, according to new research.

Infants as young as three months old are also able to perceive different emotions from the voices they hear as they sleep, researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London found.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), they took brain images of sleeping babies and discovered that special areas in the brain which process sound are more sensitive than previously thought.