Babies think.
But to what?
"We cannot know it with precision, but when, on imaging, a region lights up and we know the tasks to which this region is assigned in adults, we deduce that this region has the same role. in the baby if it turns on in similar circumstances
,
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explains Prof. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, pediatrician specializing in the study of the development of cognitive functions in children, director of the neuroimaging development team at the research center Neurospin and co-author of
Learning to read, from cognitive science to the classroom
(Éditions Odile Jacob).
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Example: playing a short sentence to a two-month-old baby and repeating it activates a frontal region known to be involved, in adults, in verbal memory.
We deduce that this region is used by the baby to memorize the language, even if it is in a less elaborate way (perhaps just the melody of the sentence at the beginning).
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