10 Superpowers Of Young Children That You Never Knew About - Alternative View

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10 Superpowers Of Young Children That You Never Knew About - Alternative View
10 Superpowers Of Young Children That You Never Knew About - Alternative View

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Many of us quite justifiably believe that if young children have any superpowers, it is their "talent" to often go to the toilet. After all, we are talking about babies who cannot even hold their heads without our support. In order for the child to crawl first, and then go, it is required to wait several months. Compare babies to vigorous newborns of other mammals, such as kittens, about an hour after birth.

There are several theories as to why human development has taken so long. One of them says that it takes additional time for the development of the human brain. In one study, scientists looked at the amazing abilities of children under one year of age. Researchers have come to the conclusion that the intelligence of an infant is much more complex than you might imagine. Here are 10 superpowers of young children.

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Telepathy

When a person is deprived of one feeling or skill, he usually compensates for it in some other way. This is why the blind have such a good hearing. In the same way, children who have not yet fully mastered the language quickly understand how to read the non-verbal emotional states of adults around them. They do it so skillfully that experts compare it to mind reading.

Babies can see a person once and remember him for several years

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Let's start with a study in which 3-year-olds watched two videos broadcast simultaneously. The video showed two different people, with one of whom (it was the researcher) they met only once, two years ago. Children spent more time watching videos of someone they had never met before. This suggests that babies tend to look at things that are unfamiliar to them. And this proves that they remembered the researcher they met once, when they were only a year old. Of course, the phenomenon of infantile amnesia means that these early long-term memories are likely to fade in the years to come.

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Babies can hear speech sounds that you cannot hear

As children develop, they begin to pick up sounds related to their native language. Before this happens, they are able to detect all phonetic contrasts in human speech, including those that adults cannot hear. Take, for example, r and l, sounds in English that Japanese adults try to distinguish. Up to 6 months old, Japanese children can distinguish these sounds as easily as a child who grew up in an English family.

Babies can fake a cry

Last year, a Japanese researcher filmed an example of an apparently feigned cry in an 11-month-old baby. Nakayama Hiroko filmed two children in each house for 60 minutes twice a month (for six months). One child only cried after showing negative emotions. However, one day another baby was caught pretending on camera. He laughed and smiled, then suddenly began to literally squeeze out a scream, and then again showed positive emotions. This child seemed to be crying to get his mother's attention. As soon as the baby's mother appeared on the horizon, he began to laugh again.

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Babies can tell the difference between a sad and happy melody

For this study, the researchers put headphones on the children and turned on music. They waited for the babies to get bored and start looking away. Then the scientists changed the mood of the music - instead of a sad melody they included a cheerful one, and vice versa. This change of mood did not affect the three-month-old babies in any way, but for the nine-month-old babies, it was enough to spark their interest. They began to look towards the tape recorder again.

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Babies have an artistic taste

After nine-month-old babies became bored with looking at Monet's paintings, their interest was aroused by Picasso's works. However, the opposite trend was observed. After looking at some of the works of Picasso for a long time, the children preferred to look at other works of this artist, and not at the new paintings of Monet.

Researchers don't know why Picasso has such appeal, but it may be due to the greater luminescence of his paintings.

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They do not shake as they have brown fat

About five percent of an infant's body weight is brown adipose tissue, or brown fat. Unlike white fat in your belly, arms, neck and legs, brown fat helps babies avoid hypothermia. It stores calories, but burns them to heat the body.

An adult body needs 85 grams of brown fat to burn 400 to 500 calories per day. Unfortunately, people lose most of this tissue before they grow up.

Babies can show contempt

One study involved adults who watched video footage of babies (up to 9 months old) displaying different facial expressions in response to real life events, including playful interactions and painful injections. The adults were able to accurately discern eight emotions on the babies' faces, including interest, joy, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, and fear.

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Babies practice words long before they speak

In one study, scientists scanned the brains of 7-month-old and 11-month-old babies as they listened to speech sounds. Psychologists observed activity in the children's motor cortex and suggested that the children had already rehearsed how to make sounds, although most of them would not have spoken for several months.

Babies understand fundamental physics

In 2009, scientists conducted one study in which 5-month-old babies took part. The results showed that children use basic signals to determine if a material is solid or liquid. By doing this, they form expectations about how these substances will behave, such as whether they will spill, fall, or break. These experiments speak of a subconscious understanding of the foundations of physics, the researchers conclude. Yes, some abilities are really amazing, it's even hard to believe.

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Victoria Ivashura