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Infants
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Once we learn words, it is seemingly impossible to think without them. In fact, this is the prevailing explanation for infantile amnesia: our preverbal memories cannot be retrieved because they are stored in a different nonverbal code that is difficult to convert (Simcock & Hayne, 2003).
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― The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology
― The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology
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...before most of us possess an inkling that babies could be listening to us, infants are making astonishing connections between listening to human voices and developing their language system.
Think how much more can happen in those regions when parents slowly, deliberately read to their children, *just to them*, with mutually focused attention. This disarmingly simple act makes huge contributions: it provides not only the most palpable associations with reading, but also a time when parent and
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― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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