What's going on inside infants' brains that allows them to soak up information so deeply? vanessalobue explains.
Infants are born with an overabundance of synapses, or connections between neurons, the most fundamental parts of our brains.
My son Charlie just turned 3. By this time, we would have liked to have put Charlie in preschool, at least part-time, so that he could play with other kids his age and maybe even start learning some numbers and letters. Unfortunately, thepandemic got in the way of those plans, and we’re finding ourselves in a position where Charlie has spent more than a third of his life at least partially quarantined at home.
The same is true for the ability to distinguish between all different kinds of faces—regardless of species. For example, if you were to show a 6-month-old and an adult two photographs of faces and asked them to decide whether the photographs were of the same person or of two different people, both the 6-month-old infants and the adult would be equally good at the task.
So far, this all sounds great for kids, but terrible if you’re an adult. But don’t worry—there’s a lot that adults are better at too, and although there’s less room for flexibility as we get older, our brains are still quite adaptable, especially when we most need them to be. For example, adult women’s brains undergo important changes before and afterto help prepare them for motherhood .
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