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1Attention is drawn to the activity of the mother in establishing eye-to-eye contact with her baby from the earliest days onwards, to her imitating the baby's facial expressions and sounds and to her encouraging the baby to imitate her own expressions and sounds.
2It is pointed out that adults look each other in the eye to achieve maximum communication and also that it is likely that the feeling that we think 'in our heads' is a derivative of this early identification of our own face and eyes with mother's.