How to build a better learner.
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Thinking cap records electrical signals from the brain of one-year-old Elise Hardwick, who is helping scientists figure out how the youngest children process sounds that make up the building blocks of language.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Scientific American
دوره 305 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011