Babies time their smiles to make their moms smile in return

23 septiembre 2015

Why do babies smile when they interact with their parents? Could their smiles have a purpose? A team of computer scientists, roboticists and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: when babies smile, they do so with a purpose — to make the person they interact with smile in return. To verify their findings, researchers programmed a toddler-like robot to behave like the babies they studied and had the robot interact with undergraduate students.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150923151404.htm

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