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Babies can count (in a way) from the age of four days

 

How? That's interesting.

 

Apparently they show them pictures with different numbers of objects on. So maybe big circles for example, they'd show them a picture with 2 big circles, 3 big circles, 4 etc

 

Then they play them a number of beeps.

 

Apparently, some as young as 4 days old connected the number of beeps with the correct pictures (I assume regularly enough to mean it wasn't a coincidence)

 

Can't find the research, but it was on the "No Such Thing as a Fish" podcast (which is excellent by the way). As are most of the facts I put in this thread :)

 

 

Is that a website. Like Plenty of Fish?

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Dorothy

 

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For anyone at a loss for what to get their GF for Christmas, this little beaut has just popped up on the Dorothy site.

I have no connection with the shop, other than I've bought a couple of things there and the quality is bang on.

 

The map is not geographically accurate, it's just a silly nice thing.

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