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Babies Aren’t Afraid of Heights Until They Start Crawling
Smithsonian Magazine: Babies are fearless when it comes to heights. That woozy, faint feeling only starts kicking in around month nine, when babies begin to recoil from the edge of a steep staircase or the drop-off Visit Page
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How Babies Learn to Fear Heights
LiveScience: As any parent knows, babies aren’t born with a fear of heights. In fact, infants can be frighteningly bold around the edge of a bed or a changing table. But around 9 months, babies Visit Page
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How Do Babies Learn to Be Wary of Heights?
Infants develop a fear of heights as a result of their experiences moving around their environments, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Learning to avoid Visit Page
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Friday Illusion: Ghostly images change shape
NewScientist: Think hard: you can transform a circle into a hexagon using the power of your mind. New animations created by Hiroyuki Ito from Kyushu University show how staring at coloured shapes can produce an Visit Page
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2 Scientists Receive Grawemeyer Award for Psychology
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Two scientists with the National Institute of Mental Health will receive the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for their research on how the brain works, the university Visit Page
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Attention and Awareness Aren’t The Same
Paying attention to something and being aware of it seem like the same thing -they both involve somehow knowing the thing is there. However, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue Visit Page