Do you know? Your Babies Can Think Smartly Before They Learn How to Speak

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Do you know? Your Babies Can Think Smartly Before They Learn How to Speak
Do you know? Your Babies Can Think Smartly Before They Learn How to Speak

New Delhi : A new study claims that babies who are not able to speak in their early age can think much more than adults do. To your surprise, they are blessed with the talent to think logically for many things around them. It’s just that they cannot express themselves by words.

Famous psychologist Jean Piaget, once said that human brains cannot give logical reasoning until the age of seven. However, a team of scientists dare to challenge the theory and came up with surprising result. They examined the eyes of 48 babies and drew a conclusion that the babies are capable of analysing things through the process of elimination (an easy method to understand logical reasoning).

Working Methodology through Elimination Process

According to the article published in the Science journal, the process of elimination includes only one ‘A’ or ‘B’. In any case, only one can be true. Therefore, if A is proven to be false, then B must be true.

In the study, scientists asked the babies to look at animations that illustrated them two different objects. Then, these objects were placed behind a barrier, and one of them was taken away. When the barrier was removed, only one object was kept. Scientists observed the eye movement of the participants and found that they watched longer when one of the object was still around, meaning that they were in a confused state of mind.

Stella Lourenco, a psychologist at Emory University and the lead author of the study says, "We found that within the first year of life, children can engage in this type of logical reasoning, which was previously thought to be beyond their reach until the age of about four or five years,"  

This kind of research is expected to be helpful for scientists and child psychologist to understand the cognitive function of children. A better understanding cerebral activity will help them to identify the cognitive disabilities associated with reasoning, memory, attention, language and others.

Smart Thinking Ability of Babies

The magic of science is evolving day-by-day, which highlights the enormous ability of human beings to think logically. However, the question of inborn talent and hard-won accomplishment is yet to be solved. While a few researchers hold the belief that babies are able to develop reasoning before they learn language skill; some briefs out the study made in 2015 which talked about infants’ capability related to dominance hierarchy.

To conclude, we can only say that babies are smarter than their relatives think. Parents, don’t under-estimate their expressions!