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Babies Learn While Sleeping
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Air date: September 5, 2010
Host: Kathy Miller, MD
Interview: Bill Fifer, PhD, developmental psychobiologist, Columbia University
Two conversations, now, about how we learn. First: babies.
It’s no secret that human learning goes on virtually from birth, and, as it turns out, day and night.
That’s the finding of our next guest.
Bill Fifer, PhD, is a developmental psychobiologist at Columbia University. He recently published a study that found that newborns can do simple learning while they’re asleep.
He chats with Sound Medicine’s Kathy Miller to explain how he figured that out, and how his research might lead to earlier detection of developmental disorders in children.
Additional Resources:
- Find more info on Dr. Fifer's newborn learning research in the NIH newsroom.
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