Re: virus: Study: Infants start learning language in the crib
Marie Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Fri, 03 Oct 1997 14:30:45 -0700
Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Marie Foster wrote:
>
> > Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:
> > I
> > > thus find myself furrowing my brow at this study's contrary assumption
> > > that the sounds to which babies will attend longer are the ones they
> > > recognize. Either the case is more complex than either assumption can
> > > account for, or somebody is mistaken.
> > >
> > > Eva,
> > > interrogating infants
> >
> > I may be wrong, but I think what may be going on here is the difference
> > in the research between visual and auditory stimula.
> >
> >
> > Marie
> >
>
> No, this research sounds perfectly analogous to what I've read before in
> that respect: playing sounds, judging infants' interest by their looking
> behaviour. I remain puzzled.
>
> Eva
You are probably correct. For some reason I tend to think of music more
as vibratory than visual input is... What about research that has been
done on thought? I remember (incompletely) about the difference in
brain activity between people who think visually and those who think in
words.
There must be other examples of contradictory research.
Equally puzzled
Marie