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Sex begets babies.
AV: Yes, and I often joke with Rufus when he comes home that I'm not sure he would actually be able to find our child in a line-up amongst other babies.
And when you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, our job is not to say, "Look at her, she's perfect.
The babies that we were carrying when my patient first asked me this question are now both in middle school, and the answer has been so slow to come.
We will all have high highs and big days and proud moments of smiles on graduation stages, father-daughter dances at weddings and healthy babies screeching in the delivery room, but between those high highs, we may also have some lumps and some bumps too.
We want our babies to read when they are six months old.
The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline.
Work in my lab is focused on the first critical period in development, and that is the period in which babies try to master which sounds are used in their language.
So we've been studying the babies using a technique that we're using all over the world and the sounds of all languages.
Well, babies all over the world are what I like to describe as "citizens of the world."
So at six to eight months, the babies are totally equivalent.
The babies in the United States are getting a lot better, babies in Japan are getting a lot worse, but both of those groups of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn.
Patricia Kuhl: During the production of speech, when babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
And what we've learned is that babies are sensitive to the statistics, and the statistics of Japanese and English are very, very different.
So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.
So we asked ourselves, can the babies take statistics on a brand new language?
And we tested this by exposing American babies who'd never heard a second language to Mandarin for the first time during the critical period.
But the Taiwanese babies are getting better, not the American babies.
What we did was expose American babies, during this period, to Mandarin.
It was like having Mandarin relatives come and visit for a month and move into your house and talk to the babies for 12 sessions.
So a group of babies came in and listened to English.
But look at what happened to the babies exposed to Mandarin for 12 sessions.
They were as good as the babies in Taiwan who'd been listening for 10 and a half months.
What it demonstrated is that babies take statistics on a new language.
So we ran another group of babies in which the kids got the same dosage, the same 12 sessions, but over a television set.
And another group of babies who had just audio exposure and looked at a teddy bear on the screen.
It takes a human being for babies to take their statistics.
The social brain is controlling when the babies are taking their statistics.
We want to get inside the brain and see this thing happening as babies are in front of televisions, as opposed to in front of human beings.
We're the first in the world to record babies in an MEG machine while they are learning.
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