Name: The surprisingly logical minds of babies
Uploaded: 2015-06-02T14:58:09Z
Duration: 20 min 9 s
Description: How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.

*Life on the Mississippi*

Here I say, "You cannot randomly draw three blue balls in a row out of a box of mostly yellow balls." Of course you *could* technically pull out three blue balls in a row randomly but it's very unlikely.

Infants consider both the sample and the sampling process in inductive generalization

16-month-olds rationally infer causes of failed actions

Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems

How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.

Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies

The surprisingly logical minds of babies

Babies use limited examples to make logical inferences, revealing their innate ability to learn complex concepts quickly.

15-month-olds discern between randomly sampled and cherry-picked evidence, applying this to predict outcomes accurately.

Infants, through minimal statistical data, distinguish between objects' functionality, showcasing early causal reasoning.