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Article: HOW THESE YOUNG SUBJECTS LEARN, A UW SCIENTIST SAYS IS 'MAGICAL STUFF' BABIES HELP UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 22, 2001
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Byline: GREGORY ROBERTSP-I reporter
For 25 years, a steady stream of mothers and infants has trickled into a low-rise building on the edge of Portage Bay at the University of Washington. One sunny Monday this month, Janine Dodd and her 11-month-old son, Samuel, took their turn, making their way to a cramped room equipped with a chair, a loudspeaker and a darkened glass box set on a small table.
Samuel sat on his mother's lap as a research technician crouched across the table and entertained him with some simple plastic toys. A sequence of computer-generated syllables beeped from the loudspeaker. Occasionally, Samuel turned his head toward the box, ...