How do toddlers instinctively acquire the ability to imitate the sounds they hear, precisely controlling their tongue, mouth, lips, vocal cords, and directing airflow through the mouth in specific manners?
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The brain focuses on on those specific sounds. That’s why it’s hard to learn other languages late in life. Your mind will make all sounds sound like a couple things in the beginning. Slowly the mind can learn about 75 different sounds which is about the average number of sounds in a language. But there’s over 100 sounds humans can make. The mind creates a perception slowly so that reality is simplified and you can only consciously focus on one thing while the subconscious stores all that info or as much of the simplified version it can. Over time you begin to associate visual patterns of the mouth and eyes with noises and you begin to remember with emotions. Emotions are our best memory maker and when a baby is crying it remembers. It remembers the noises it heard to get fed and the ones it made and the subconscious will prime those next time it’s hungry to make those noises or next time it hears mom or dad make the same noises they did last time they fed baby, baby will think about their hunger.
This is all done with insulin in the brain the body makes it and as it makes its way to the brain the brain uses insulin to start building pathways of memory and muscle coordination. Insulin is a magic molecule in the nervous system. Once the baby learns to eat insulin is free to start making other memories and motivation muscle cues for other things like making over noises and testing their reactions. They learn quick that smiles and cooing makes adults happy and crawl from there.
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