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...baby's smile is also a kind of judgment on the care that its mother has been providing. "All these new data about how early the baby can distinguish things should upgrade motherhood, restore some prestige to it," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, 80, who taught a benign form of child rearing to a whole generation of Americans. "Motherhood has had an ever reduced amount of importance placed on it in our strange, overly intellectualized, overly scientific society...
...something about the way the filmed infants moved enabled a group of 13-month-old children to distinguish the boy from the girl. Bower is still trying to figure out how they do that...
...swimming. Those abilities deteriorate within a few months. The same process seems to occur with intellectual skills that are not used. Psychologists Janet Werker of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., and Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that are not used in their native language, but they have much greater difficulty by the age of twelve months. Japanese babies, for example, have no trouble with the "ell" sound that their parents find difficult...
...optical scanner that can distinguish among 100,000 pictures, sufficient to read Japanese written characters...
...last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideals, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered into us the need to distinguish between books and life when trying to learn about the world...