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everything we think we know about babies is wrong

Interview with Alison Gopnik in Seed Magazine.
The picture we used to have of children was that they spent all of this time doing pretend play because they had these very limited minds, but in fact what we’ve now discovered is that children have more powerful learning abilities than we do as adults.
They already seem to [...]

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Daydreaming is good for you

You should be daydreaming more. It increases complex thought.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that activity in numerous brain regions increases when our minds wander. It also finds that brain areas associated with complex problem-solving – previously thought to go dormant when we daydream – are in fact [...]

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