Blowfish Effect: Children Learn in More Sophisticated Ways Than Previously Thought (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Blowfish Effect: Children Learn in More Sophisticated Ways Than Previously Thought

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Graduate student Emily Liquin guides a child through a language experiment at the Princeton Baby Lab. A team of Baby Lab researchers found that young children use what they already know about objects -- how typical or unusual they are for their categories -- to help them figure out what newly encountered words mean, a type of sophisticated reasoning that was thought to develop much later.

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Video still by Emily Liquin

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