Original website : TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html
About this talk :
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.
About Patricia Kuhl
Patricia Kuhl studies how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition.
Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/patricia_kuhl.html
External links : * Home: http://ilabs.washington.edu/kuhl/
Video source file :
http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/PatriciaKuhl_2010X_480.mp4
Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
The notion of "taking statistics" seems to be a metaphor for something that is not clearly explained. Is it "becoming familiar with" or is something else implied?
bigbluemeanie 7 months ago
Man! Professor Vanderburg of the University of Toronto was right! Babies learn better through social contact and not through technological advances!!!
001FJ 1 year ago