20 Things You Didn't Know About Learning

Lab rats can be taught to identify patterns and babies learn to recognize their mothers’ faces, but IBM’s Watson achieved that most impressive of feats: becoming a Jeopardy! champ.

By Jonathon Keats
Aug 12, 2020 5:00 PM
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1. You were learning before you were born: By eavesdropping on their mothers while in the womb, babies pick up the sound patterns of their native tongue.

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