【TED】是一個會議的名稱，它是英文technology,entertainment, design三個單詞的首字母縮寫。它是社會各界精英交流的盛會，這里有當代最杰出的思想家，這里有當代最優(yōu)秀的科學家，這里有迸發(fā)著最閃耀的思想火花，這里孕育著最光輝的夢想。
Patricia Kuhl
Patricia Kuhl studies how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition.

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puberty
"ah"
"ee"
six-monther
Babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline. After puberty, we fall off the map. No scientists dispute this curve, but laboratories all over the world are trying to figure out why it works this way. Work in my lab is focused on the first critical period in development, and that is the period in which babies try to master which sounds are used in their language. We think, by studying how the sounds are learned, we'll have a model for the rest of language, and perhaps for critical periods that may exist in childhood for social, emotional and cognitive development. So we've been studying the babies using a technique that we're using all over the world and the sounds of all languages. The baby sits on a parent's lap, and we train them to turn their heads when a sound changes, like from "ah" to "ee". If they do so at the appropriate time, the black box lights up and a panda bear pounds a drum. A six-monther adores the task.
嬰兒和孩子是語言天才，直到7歲，然后語言系統(tǒng)會呈下降趨勢。青春期后，如圖，我們的語言能力衰退?？茖W家們確信這曲線圖的情況，但是全世界的實驗室都試圖查明這到底是怎么回事。 我實驗室的工作主要是研究第一個關鍵期，而這個時期是關于嬰兒試著掌握他們語言中的聲音。我們認為通過研究這些被嬰兒學會的聲音，我們會給出學習其他語言的一個模式，或給出可能存在于孩子發(fā)展社交、情感和認知的關鍵期的一個模式。我們一直研究嬰兒使用的技巧，也是全世界使用的語言技巧和所有語言的聲音技巧。嬰兒坐在父母的膝上，我們訓練他們，當聽到一個聲音改變時，他們就轉頭，如從“ah”到“ee”。如果他們一聽到就轉頭，黑盒子就會亮會出現(xiàn)一只敲鼓的熊貓。六個月大的嬰兒喜歡這個測試。