--- Bryan D Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I was thinking about kids' amazing ability
to learn languages, which involves massive
memorization.
Language learning is a hard-wired trait--another well
established fact. Kids pick up language automatically
from their environment. Some
William Dickens wrote:
Come on, Fab - pointing out examples of brain differences explaining
behavioral differences is hardly convincing evidence that brain
differences are the right explanation in this case.
Hey Bryan, don't you know the plural of anecdote is data? Seriously, there is
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Come on, Fab - pointing out examples of brain differences explaining
behavioral differences is hardly convincing evidence that brain
differences are the right explanation in this case.
My point is that behavior is more than cost-benefit calculations
with
It's well documented that long term memory is nil for children less
than five years of age (doctors call it pediatric amnesia) and is
very spotty until about 12. Maybe children can remember strings of
numbers well in labs, but they can't remember things from a year or two
ago terribly well.
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
It's well documented that long term memory is nil for children less
than five years of age (doctors call it pediatric amnesia) and
is very spotty until about 12. Maybe children can remember strings
of numbers well in labs, but they can't remember things from
In any case, all of the deficiencies in children's brains you point out
more or less sound like extensions of their low absolute IQ.
Not really. One listed deficiency is memory. That might be correlated with
IQ, but it's certainly not the same as IQ. Analogy: a computer with a
small storage
fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...a well adjusted rail road worker in the 19th
century is injured on the job.
It was Phineas Gage, he had a tamping iron blown
throught his head. The Malcolm Macmillan School of
Psychology has a homepage dedicated to him at
Come on, Fab - pointing out examples of brain differences explaining
behavioral differences is hardly convincing evidence that brain
differences are the right explanation in this case.
My point is that behavior is more than cost-benefit calculations
with IQ as an intervening variable. My
--- fabio guillermo rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's well documented that long term memory is nil for
children less than five years of age (doctors call it
pediatric amnesia)
The Hippacampus isn't fully developed, and it's the
organ of the brain responsible for transferring short
term
