Anatomy Case

January 30, 2012

In the documentary of the "Science of Babies", it talks about how intellectual babies are even. Babies are basically born with some bodily functions already programmed into their minds, such as walking. A baby is able to do the basic movements of taking a step during the first moments of being out of the mother's womb with assistance. The reason why a baby is unable to perform the actual movements of walking is because their center of balance is their head. A babies head is relatively disproportionate to their entire body at infancy. Our brains are large when born compared to other species of animals, even our closest relatives the chimpanzee.

Studies have shown that babies have the capacity of being able to understand a wide variety of languages during the early stages of birth. A baby born in an English speaking community can understand a conversation in the near room of Mandarin dialect or Spanish. However, babies lose this phenomenal ability after a few weeks or so due to the repetitive exposure to the common language in the area; with the baby I mentioned earlier, the language will be English as the understood one.

Along with these facts, babies are capable of doing basic math problems, such as adding or subtracting. The test with the toys and the screen demonstrated that when a predictable outcome occurs, the infant's attention span is not so strong. However, when there are fewer mice than predicted after the screen is lifted, the baby is able to recognize this anomaly by demonstrating more attentiveness than the predictable outcome.