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- Junto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"Science" is an established category on Digg and I'm pretty sure most people would consider this article scientific.
Secondly, you're getting a thumbs down, reverse Digg for spamming your lame personal website. - gooru, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18My ex-girlfriend's first word was "attack". This article might explain a few things.
- dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Cognitive Science & Linguistics aren't science/tech related? We need more stuff like this and less about what color the new game console will be.
IT'S NOT TECHNOLOGY UNLESS I CAN BUY IT!!!!1111111 - adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Come on everybody! This is not technology but it IS science! And all technology is based on science. I will always dig cognitive science breakthroughs even if they seem obvious.
- kraagenskul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They needed a study for this? All 3 of my kids learned the words "juice" early on, but "down!" (when they were on the couch, toybox, roof, etc.) always got a blank look, or worse, a smile with an "UP!"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sorry, but this artcile refers to the deepest levels on the human mind - how a young and growing consciousness can take control of the world around it. Before you can be brainwashed and indocrinated by adults, for a while at least, you are a truly independent mind it seems.
- redman5419, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I agree with defsmac, no news here. It's pretty obvious that people learn what interests them, and I imagine that that applies to any age.
- blatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When will people in positions of power learn that this is how all people think, not just children.
- ToeCheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why do all children tend to favor curse words that fly out of my mouth when they are near by?
- Dufresne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Of course interest influences learning but what they are describing about a baby is on a whole other level. You can teach an older person something they aren't interested in, it's just harder. What this is saying is it is nearly impossible to teach babies something they aren't interested in.
- Koldark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can believe it. With a 15 month old right now, I can see how that is true.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just for squirts and giggles, let's also talk about what "technology" is.
Is language a technology? yes
Is the steering wheel a technology? yes
Does technology always have to involve electricity? nope - Boredom431, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Doesn't this kind of relate to science considering this was a study?
- bradford, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"Assss - Hoooole"
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"...but "down!" (when they were on the couch, toybox, roof, etc.) always got a blank look..."
wtf were your kids doing on the roof? heh. just wondering. - tsunamibomb, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1Babies are smarter than we all think
http://rebornbabiesforsale.wordpress.com/ - venix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's only if you believe that teaching causes learning, which you'd find a pretty difficult position to defend. I would go as far as to say it's IMPOSSIBLE to teach any human being something they aren't interested in.
With older learners, it may seem you can teach them something they're not interested in, but you first have to convince them in some way that a thing is worth learning. Much learning in our society is based on fear and shame, e.g. schools waving "permanent records" in kids' faces and economies forcing workers to retrain. For better or for worse, those motivations do provide "interest". - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1makes sense.
- jumjum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The coolest is teaching babies simple sign language before they can talk, they sign to you what they want even before they are physically able to say it. It's pretty remarkable and probably cuts down on the crying.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i guess in a vague context you could say that learning this phenomenon of human psychological behavior and applying it to your own personal experience as a parent directly links the scientific information within the article to your parental methods, human technology in their own right assuming you believe humans learn how to be good parents.
it is entirely my opinion that we don't possess the scientific knowledge necessary to accurately measure a person's potential drive as a parent. this is due to the nascent behavior of human parental instinct, as some parents can attest to the immediate change in role upon the birth of their child. but I'm sure we can all agree there are some horrible parents in our society from the POV of our social construct
if this article helps them become better parents, then no problem.
+digg - emlprime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Technically, if you don't teach them a word, they'll just make one up. Wittgenstein points out that language is just a set of symbols that we agree have a common meaning.
- nicheplayer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This story needs an "Obvious" ta...er...wait. Sorry. Wrong site.
- Trevor2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3This is just sad, how many millions of dollars did it take to find that out?
- Hercynium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1indeed, very obvious. I'm not going to pull the 'My son is a genius' schtick, but I know for a fact he could understand various words well before 10 months. Just because scientists can't measure it doesn't mean it isn't possible, or even uncommon. His cousin - not only could she understand words at 10 mos, she was signing at that age (not just because baby sign language is hip these days - she's deaf)
- mercurous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Read down, "Later, at around 18 months, children learn to use the speaker's interest — such as where the eyes gaze — as a guide to learning, the researchers say." That's an important point -- that infants don't follow what others are expressing until a certain age.
- carmaster787, on 02/18/2008, -0/+0As with academic competition right around the corner, I wondered now if we'd revved up our babies' brainpower enough. Had we missed learning opportunities during the much-talked-about birth-to-3 age period?
New research has given parents a flood of information on how the brains of infants, babies, and toddlers develop, and the marketplace has responded with a slew of products that promise to give your child a leading edge. But this information seems only to have added to the confusion about how to best stimulate young children intellectually. Some baby info:
http://www.ebeanstalk.com/works.php
http://dinomuseum.com/baby-einstein-numbers-nurser ...
http://www.infantlearning.com/benefits.html - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1goo fabba warnna harrf ghrabbabababa! hauwngk hauwngk!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Haha I picture a baby flicking off dad who's holding a spoonful of baby food.
- jawagas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I watched this awesome documentary in HD about studies done to find out when a child's mind grows concious of itself, when they are able to recognize facial expressions, and how they are able to determine what is safe or unsafe. It was pretty good.
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0chickapea chickapea
- Opanoid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3This is pretty obvisous for all parents out there, no digg.
- marttimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Not true. Technology is either a practical application of scientific knowledge or the machinery and equipment derived from this knowledge. (Oxford American Dictionary). Therefore, speech is a human cognitive process, and not a technology.
- dkuntze, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Any parent of sound mind and reason knows this. I wonder how much money was "granted" to Temple university to arrive at this breakthough.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1NO, someobody has to tell them the words or they don't even know what to learn.
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Paging Captain Obvious... Captain Obvious do you read me??
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2and how in the world this is news?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2No tech, no digg. Maybe this belongs on diggbabies.com or something.
- mrfollicle, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1this is ALMOST interesting
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1half of the article is covered up.. wtf...
- DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3yeah i concur how is this technology related or even news? humans decide what they want to learn. yeah huge breakthrough figuring that out there...
- VadimKatchkakov, on 10/12/2007, -22/+4Of course - as relates to cognition of mind in baby is technogic.
- marttimo, on 10/12/2007, -32/+2That's exactly what I was thinking.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -42/+8How is this a technology related article?
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