What Infants Know: The New Cognitive Science of Early Development

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Summary: Which cognitive mechanisms are innate and which are not
Review: This book is ideal when you have very young children or await a baby. You learn the different phases in cognitive recognition (like pattern, speech, color or smell recognition), know when the children do really acquire their different senses and what is already "preprogrammed" when a child is born. This easy-to-read-book is a superb mix of daily language and photographs illustrating the major cognition experiments alrdeady done on little children. Last but not least, this book make you think about the way you cognitively developped yourself. It illustrates for instance why it is so difficult to speak perfectly a foreign language when starting studying it as a grown-up.