The Lingiatic Genius of Babies by Patricia Kuhl (2010) [TED Summary]

Talking about a very cute baby, Patricia kuhl going to talk about something we can't see from babies and what's going on up in that little brain of hers. Patricia kuhlsaid that the modern tools of neuroscience are demonstrating to us that what's going on up there is nothing short of rocket science. And what we're learning is going to shed some light on what the romantic writers and poets described as the "celestial openness" of the child's mind.

A mother in India, and she's speaking Koro and she's talking to her baby, which is Koro is a newly discovered language. and 800 people who speak Koro in the worl , to preserve this language. The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline.

During critical two-month period. This is a critical period for sound development. So there are two things that are going on. The first was that the babies listened intently to us, and they took statistics as they listened to us speak. During the production of speech, when babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains

Patricia kuhl show little Emma. She's a six-monther. And she's listening to various languages in the earphones that are in her ears. She can move around. They tracking her head with little pellets in a cap, so she's free to move completely unconstrained. It's a technical tour de force.  They seeing the baby brain. As the baby hears a word in her language. The golden age of knowledge about child's brain development. We can see a child's brain as they experience an emotion, as they learn to speak and read, as they solve a math problem, as they have an idea.