When babies scream and cry, how do their mothers know what they want or need?
“Crying is an obvious sign something is up with your little darling but beyond that, their feelings are tricky to interpret – except at playtime.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27457-hungry-in-pain-or-content-adults-cant-tell-what-a-baby-wants.html
“Preverbal infants often vocalize in emotionally loaded situations, yet the communicative po- tential of these vocalizations is not well understood.”
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0124317&representation=PDF
“There’s something primal in a mother's response to a crying infant. So primal, in fact, that mother deer will rush protectively to the distress calls of other infant mammals, such as fur seals, marmots and even humans.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329873.100-primal-pull-of-a-baby-crying-reaches-across-species.html
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