As someone with a long time fascination with developmental research, particularly in the cognitive neurosciences, I found this short clip totally fascinating.

I can’t imagine the extreme patience that goes into these studies! I’d love to hear more about how researchers in this area control for motion artifacts and other noise-elements. The entire data collection processes is really interesting- do let me know if you have any insight! You can read more about this research here:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-build-a-better-learner