A recent study conducted at UPF reveals that six-month-old infants exhibit predictive behavior towards individuals speaking their mother tongue, but not towards those speaking a foreign language. The study observed distinct brain activity and attention focus in infants when exposed to native versus foreign language speakers, indicating a bias in predictive and learning behavior. These findings underline the intertwined nature of predictive brain mechanisms and social categorization systems, shedding light on how infants interpret, imitate, and learn from their environment.
