Curiosity drives infant learning, Hopkins research shows
[embedded content]Want to make your baby smarter?New research by the Johns Hopkins University has found that it may be as simple as throwing some surprises his or her way.All babies are born with some natural smarts, but youngsters learn more about the world when this innate intelligence is challenged, cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson discovered in a study that will be published Friday in the journal .The researchers took babies, who could not yet talk, through four experiments to prove their theory. They presented the...
