article_snippet: For a child, the world is a heady mix of colours, shapes and words that are constantly being learned and remembered.
article_snippet: To make sense of many of these experiences, babies and toddlers 'map' names to objects by assessing ' names surroundings and associating words with the item's location.
article_snippet: The study shows that the body plays a role in early object name learning, and how toddlers use the body's position in space to connect ideas,' Professor Smith said. '
article_snippet: The study shows  the body plays a role in early object name learning,' lead author Professor Linda Smith said. '
article_snippet: She added that the experiments could provide a new way to investigate how cognition is connected to the body, as well as new evidence that thoughts, words and representations of objects are affected by the 'spatial relationship of the body within the surrounding world.'
article_snippet: How Robots and Infants Map Words to Objects,' is published in the journal Plos One.
highlights_snippet: Babies learn the name of new objects by 'mapping' Babies surroundings .
  
highlights_snippet: This means Babies associate a word using the object's proximity to Babies .
  