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And it makes sense that we put a lot of effort into making babies think like adults do.

But if what we want is to be like those butterflies, to have open-mindedness, open learning, imagination, creativity, innovation, maybe at least some of the time we should be getting the adults to start thinking more like children.

They school as adolescents, and become behemoth loners as adults.

We bring in two adults.

And I think, as adults, we need to learn that there's no right or wrong way to play.

Then in 2005 I cofounded a nonprofit organization for youth and young adults with physical disabilities so they could get involved with action sports.

They see us as adults, rational adults.

The other people I worked with are many adults in all walks of life, and particularly in business, and they often will want to make presentations memorable.

But then, as I got near of the time, I got more apprehensive, because then I was thinking, "I've worked with children, with all sorts of adults; I've never worked with a group like this."

All the adults knew the risks.

Like most adults on the boat, my mother carried a small bottle of poison.

But when I was six, the adults in my family began to speak in whispers and shushed me any time that I asked a question.

Course, I had to tell him the building was for adults only, and to get out.

The most mentally sharp older adults are the ones who show this positivity effect the most.

It's a disease that kills a lot of adults in Africa, in addition to a lot of children.

And as adults, we're certainly not alone.

One of the best ways of killing mosquitoes is not to wait until they fly around like adults and bite people and transmit disease.

After, students asked us, the adults the hardest question: How can we stop the senseless violence?

So to me this is interesting and important, and in fact, it's my policy, even though I give a lot of talks to adults, you give talks to adults, and two days later they're back where they were.

So, all right, I give talks to adults, that's fine, but I try and make 10 percent of the talks that I give, I try and make those for kids.

So my journey in autism really started when I lived in a residential unit for adults with autism.

And we just can't afford that missed opportunity, because children with autism become adults with autism.

Adults don't know who immigrants are.

I think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of their development, if we want to have thinking organizations and a thinking society.

So in my lab, we bring adolescents and adults into the lab to have a brain scan, we give them some kind of task that involves thinking about other people, their minds, their mental states, their emotions, and one of the findings that we've found several times now, as have other labs around the world, is part of the prefrontal cortex called medial prefrontal cortex, which is shown in blue on the slide, and it's right in the middle of prefrontal cortex in the midline of your head.

This region is more active in adolescents when they make these social decisions and think about other people than it is in adults, and this is actually a meta-analysis of nine different studies in this area from labs around the world, and they all show the same thing, that activity in this medial prefrontal cortex area decreases during the period of adolescence.

And we think that might be because adolescents and adults use a different mental approach, a different cognitive strategy, to make social decisions, and one way of looking at that is to do behavioral studies whereby we bring people into the lab and we give them some kind of behavioral task, and I'll just give you another example of the kind of task that we use in my lab.

Now believe it or not, normal, healthy, intelligent adults like you make errors about 50 percent of the time on that kind of trial.

So we give this kind of task to adolescents and adults, and we also have a control condition where there's no director and instead we give people a rule.

Okay, so if I just show you the percentage errors in a large developmental study we did, this is in a study ranging from age seven to adulthood, and what you're going to see is the percentage errors in the adult group in both conditions, so the gray is the director condition, and you see that our intelligent adults are making errors about 50 percent of the time, whereas they make far fewer errors when there's no director present, when they just have to remember that rule of ignoring the gray background.

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