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Timely responses - even from a car - drive babies' learning
August 08, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 8 -- Cornell University issued the following news:

The timing of others' reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning language and social norms a process evident in infants' interactions with a robot, new Cornell research shows.

Deploying a remote-controlled car that would approach and produce speech sounds in response to babbling, researchers found that within 10 minutes, babies formed strong expectations that the car . . .

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