Babies Think Like Adults

clipped from www.mostphotos.com clipped from news.yahoo.com Like adults, babies can remember more things by grouping objects together, a new study found The finding shows short term memory in babies works similarly to that in adults, who routinely break information into chunks to remember more of it. The discovery indicates that this memory-boosting trick does not seem to be learned, but may be an innate human ability. Adults break down phone numbers, social security numbers, and even grocery lists into smaller bits to more easily remember them. Researchers have wondered whether this was a technique we pick up over time, or if it is fundamentally built into href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/babiesthinklikeadults/28232200/SIG=11mi4cruj/*http://www.livescience.com/health/050517_memory.html">class=yshortcuts id=lw_1216082436_0>our memory system. "Our results say you don't need to be explicitly taught these strategies "If babies, who don't have a lot of language ability and haven't been instructed in the task, can just show they can do this, that tells us this is a very early-developing feature of memory. It tells us that this is something fundamental about the href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/babiesthinklikeadults/28232200/SIG=13qb9m65m/*http://www.livescience.com/health/070409_memory_overload.htmlhttp:/www.livescience.com/health/050209_under_pressure.html">class=yshortcuts id=lw_1216082436_3>architecture of memory in the brain."