Babies Might Be Able To "Sense" Math
I was surfing the web and came across a news item about how six month old babies can "do math."
happening, they just don't know what it is.
They started the show with two dolls. Before the show ended, a doll was removed and then the infant's vision was blocked with a screen. When the screen was taken away, either one doll was left, as expected, or two dolls, which would not be mathematically correct. The infants looked at the screen longer (8.04 seconds) when the number of dolls was two, which did not agree with the solution of 2 - 1 = 1.Just like Bob Dylan's Mr. Jones... the babies know something is
happening, they just don't know what it is.

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