06 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Experimental Methods for Understanding Babies
But why should you believe us instead of those benighted experts who thought babies couldn't really see? How can we say we actually do know what babies think? With the help of videotape, scientists have developed ingenious experimental techniques to ask babies what they know. One whole set of techniques has been designed to answer two simple questions: Do babies think that two things are the same or different? And if they think they're different, do they prefer one to the other? You can prese...Methods for knowing what's going on in a babies brain when exposed to various stimuli.