How babies think about danger | Shari Liu

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Are babies oblivious to danger? It's not that simple, says cognitive scientist Shari Liu. Sharing surprising insights (and plenty of baby videos) from studies of early human development, Liu highlights the unexpected ways babies perceive and respond to risky situations — and what these findings could unravel about the inner workings of our minds.

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0:12.0	Sherry Leo studies the minds of babies
0:15.0	in a changing world.
0:17.0	Questions like,
0:18.0	how does a baby sense danger?
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0:23.3	She shares her learnings and surprises in her 2022 talk from TEDX MIT
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1:05.2	So today I'm here to talk to you about babies and they're understanding the world. Specifically their understanding of dangerous
1:09.0	situations. You might think that babies don't understand anything about
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