Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com

Have a look at this great and very entertaining talk of Alison Gopnik on "What do babies think?"

"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com

If you want to learn more about Alison Gopnik's reasearch, you might want to read her article: Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think or her book The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life.

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