# What do babies think?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Alison Gopnik
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.

## Lectures

1. [What do babies think?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think/ccd3922aa049), 19 min (TED's player)