New parents often seem surgically attached to their camera when their baby is born, but MIT professor Deb Roy went a few steps further: he set up dozens of fixed cameras and microphones in his home and recorded his infant son continuously for 15 months. Roy's motive was purely academic -- he wanted to use the data to trace infant language development in his lab, the Cognitive Machines Group. He explains how to design an experiment to observe your own child learning to talk.
By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/how-to/how-to-experiment-on-your-baby
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