• Question: how does your work help babies,children & adults learn about the world?

    Asked by garryhooper88 to Caspar on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by katherinehall.
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      Caspar Addyman answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      My reaserch is all about how learning itself works. (how do we learn to walk, learn to talk, learn about concepts like ‘dog’, ‘chair’, ‘food’, ‘truth’, ‘justice’) So the better we understand how we learn these things, the better we will be able to help people learn more effectively.

      This could be really useful for children with learning disabilities or other problems (like Autism or dyslexia) they find learning and understanding the world much harder. If we understand some of the reason we can help those children do their best.

      And meanwhile, I think it always benefits everyone to be able to understand better what it means to be human.

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