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Babies may seem oblivious — but their minds are actually hard at work. #TEDTalks

Shari Liu is principal investigator at Johns Hopkins. She studies how we understand other people’s minds and actions, focusing on their origins in development and their origins in the human brain.

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Shari Liu is principal investigator at Johns Hopkins. She studies how we understand other people’s minds and actions, focusing on their origins in development and their origins in the human brain.

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  1. @justadude7525

    March 28, 2026 at 1:02 pm

    Flawed science if someone led them, they are made to trust the parent

    • @iremozcelik5770

      March 28, 2026 at 1:08 pm

      Whose to say the person holding them is the parent

    • @mikeysrose

      March 30, 2026 at 11:00 am

      ​@iremozcelik5770 Or that they’re being led. It looked like the person was there to catch them if they stumbled or fell (or stepped into empty air).

  2. @docalexander2853

    March 28, 2026 at 1:39 pm

    O true with solid color.

  3. @c-r3187

    March 28, 2026 at 7:46 pm

    The study we knew we didn’t need at a time we didn’t need it.
    Next study, Grass Grows and A Clear Sky Can Appear Blue.

    • @ScooterM4n

      March 28, 2026 at 8:14 pm

      So real I watched this completely thinking the same thing

  4. @John_Briggs

    March 28, 2026 at 7:48 pm

    How incredibly uninteresting.

  5. @ScooterM4n

    March 28, 2026 at 8:14 pm

    What is TedX coming to??

  6. @emandme1027

    March 28, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    Does this mean Trump only went to war with Iran to distract his idiotic base from the Epstein files?

  7. @BrianMcInnis87

    March 28, 2026 at 9:12 pm

    There’s no question they’re oblivious. Their brains are hard at work at becoming unoblivious.

  8. @WanderingLensebyUB

    March 29, 2026 at 8:44 am

    😂😂Babies wrote the script of this Talk

  9. @bluesquare23

    March 29, 2026 at 9:42 am

    Thought this was the onion. Wish this was the onion

  10. @its1979yall

    March 30, 2026 at 8:15 am

    ………..In other words…..Inherently, those little rascals are – making – connections – from DNA of the prior donors over the ages……….

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