TEDtalks ~ Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
Posted by admin on February 15, 2011 at 10:33 pm
At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.
Patricia Kuhl studies how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition. Full bio and more links
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