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Erin studies babies and how they reason about the world. Erin would like to study Beyonce's babies. Does anyone know how we could get ahold of Beyonce and propose a research plan?

Let me know what you think of the show!
Questionnaire: https://goo.gl/forms/hg8ro78VexOdNkI52

Suggested Reading:

General overview of what's going on with young infants: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/insights-in-human-knowledge-from-the-minds-of-babes.html?pagewanted=all
On abstracting relations: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/05/babies-can-think-before-they-can-speak/
Updates on this with 3-month-olds: https://sites.northwestern.edu/infantcognitionlab/files/2015/07/CogSci2017_Anderson_5_13-177vk3o.pdf
How to babies compare to ducklings: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/abstract-thought-in-adorable-ducklings/491294/

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Follow Erin Anderson: @thebabyelectric, http://sites.northwestern.edu/infantcognitionlab/

Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing