Baby Talk

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To researchers, though, the babbling of babies is knowable, predictable, and best of all, teachable to us non-experts. This week, we revisit our May 2018 primer on how to decipher the secret language of babies and young children.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:02.9	There's a video on YouTube you might have seen.
0:05.3	It has nearly 200 million views.
0:08.7	In this video, a pair of twin brothers are standing in a kitchen, having a little chat.
0:18.8	These twin brothers,
0:23.0	a diaper clad,
0:25.5	babies.
0:26.1	Now, if this video featured 10-year-old twins or adult twins, I guarantee you it wouldn't have gone viral.
0:35.1	What makes this video special is that we have no clue what these babies are saying.
0:43.1	To us non-babies, it sounds like Goblety Gook.
0:46.1	Cute, mysterious, Goblety Gook.
0:50.1	Baby, baby!
0:54.1	Here at Hidden Brain, we love trying to understand the puzzles and contradictions of human behavior.
0:59.1	But we spend most of our time talking about the older members of the human race.
1:05.1	Today, we focus on the younger set.
1:09.1	The much younger set.
1:12.1	I find babies are so impressive.
1:14.1	We can't really ask them what they're thinking.
1:16.1	We have to come up with clever ways of figuring out what's going on in their little brains.
1:20.1	We'll meet some of the researchers trying to decipher the behavior of babies.
1:23.1	Oh, oh, that's a ball?
1:25.1	Yep, you're right.
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