
BS 135 Lisa Barrett on How Emotions Are Made
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Power of Words in Infants
In the book, you say that words are the secret ingredient. And they are because words allow us to learn how instances that look different, that sound different and that feel different can be part of the same category. Words actually serve this purpose in infants as young as three months old. You know, it just seems like a preposterous kind of story, but I also think that there's just a ton of evidence to back it up.
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