Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices at Covert Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski, James Harkin, and Andy Murray,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, Andrew Hunter Murray.
My fact is that babies practice their first words before saying them out loud, which is very sweet.
I love that.
Wait, how do we know?
Well,
this is from a study at the University of Washington where scientists scan babies' brains and observe what happened when they were being spoken to,
and bits of their brains light up,
different parts of the brain light up,
and some of the bits are associated just with listening and taking in information,
and other bits are associated with actually planning the motor movements that you need to say words.
So even when they are listening they are trying to figure out how to make that sound, basically.
So that's what it is, is just that they're figuring out how to make sounds.
But don't they all finally reach the same word?
Is it all mama?
No.