Deb Roy: Birth of a World
Summary:
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
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Ok...............this one was way over my head. Fascinating research I am sure - I can't even comprehend how this researcher and his team ever imagined this type of analysis. Interesting to hear his son's progression from ga-ga to water. The final point - some sort of amazing feedback loop when his son takes his first steps is cut off on the video. Bummer.
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