What's going thru the head/mind of a newborn baby?

At birth babies' brains have 100 billion neurons -- as many as they will ever have. As a baby grows, so do these neurons, forming branches that connect with other neurons to transmit signals and share information. Compared to most other animals, humans have a huge number of brain cells. "It's as if nature decided, 'We want these guys to have enormous brains, but we can't make their bodies six times larger, so we're going to cut pregnancy short and get these things out before the head becomes too big,'" says Alan Leslie, Ph.D., professor of psychology and cognitive science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. As a result, human babies are born with brains that aren't fully developed. Each bit of information a baby takes from his environment stimulates a different part of the brain and reinforces particular neural connections. In the first two months alone, the number of these connections increases from an estimated 50 trillion to 1,000 trillion.
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