CAR392 — Cog Phys Devel Infant Toddlers
Cognitive and Physical Development in Infants and ToddlersIn this workshop students will discover during the first two years, body size increases dramatically, following organized patterns of growth. The interplay between genetic and environmental factors affect physical growth. Nutrition is crucial to the development of the rapidly growing brain and body. In the first year, babies start to organize sounds into complex patterns, detecting regularities that facilitate later language learning. Infants' remarkable statistical learning capacity allows them to extract patterns from complex, continuous speech, preparing them to utter their first words around age 12 months,