Tamar Kushnir, the Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor of Human Development, is quoted in this story about how babies think.

In the past few decades we've learned that babies' brains are structurally quite different from those of adults and they also function in a way that makes them better than adults at learning new things. In other words, babies seem to be specially designed for exploration and finding out how things work. They're little scientists…at least, that is, until those exploratory habits get replaced over time by less flexible thinking styles. Read more