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...European Journal of Developmental Psychology, he and Jackson pour cold water over recent experiments that claim to have observed innate or precocious social cognition skills in infants. His own experiments indicate that a baby's fascination with physically impossible events merely reflects a response to stimuli that are novel. Data from the eye tracker and the measurement of the pupils (which widen in response to arousal or interest) show that impossible events involving familiar objects are no more interesting than possible events involving novel objects. In other words, when Daniel has seen the red train come out of the tunnel...
...instinct that draws a baby's eyes to a human face. From brain-imaging studies we also know that the brain has some sort of visual buffer that continues to represent objects after they have been removed--a lingering perception rather than conceptual understanding. So when babies encounter novel or unexpected events, Sirois explains, "there's a mismatch between the buffer and the information they're getting at that moment. And what you do when you've got a mismatch is you try to clear the buffer. And that takes attention." So learning, says Sirois, is essentially the laborious business...
...said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film actor living in Hollywood," Calderón scoffed. Unfazed, Beck's wife Victoria scoped out Hollywood homes, and American sports fans contemplated something novel: buying tickets for a soccer game...
...Guilt-free Procrastination Take a break from boring textbook reading to listen to award-winning author Vikram Chandra discuss his latest creation, “Sacred Games.†Chandra, who is being hosted by The Harvard Bookstore, will be reading selections from his highly anticipated novel at the Brattle Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. $3 3)Tracy Morgan, Live! Saturday Night Live veteran and star of the newest NBC comedy, 30 Rock, returns to Boston...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...