child do a lot of sleeping — sometimes up to 18 hours a day . And with the stay six hr dedicate to pooping and weep , you have to wonder when these tater tots are actually con . The answer : rest multitasking .
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , scientists observed that babies are master of a skill that I ’ve been working on since high school : get wind while sleeping . LiveScience explains the experiment ( and assures us that the baby above is not being assault by some sort of terrifying robo - devilfish ):
In experiments with 26 sleeping infants , each just one to two days old , scientists played a melodious tone trace by a pull of air to their eyes 200 times over the course of a half - hour . A web of 124 electrodes stuck on the scalp and case of each baby also recorded nous bodily process during the experimentation .
The babies rapidly learned that they could gestate a quilt of air upon find out the note , show a four - fold increase on average in the chances of tightening their eyelids in response to the sound by the end of each sitting .
In addition to these new sixth sense into how babies ’ brains work , researchers trust that their success in scanning the infants ’ diminutive cerebella might take to new techniques for describe autism and dyslexia at a young eld .
As William Fifer , a developmental neuroscientist at Columbia University , explained , “ babies spend so much time asleep … [it ] could be an idealistic time and country to ask questions of their Einstein . ” Then he denote to the baby as a “ data parasite , ” I went back to thinking of them as precious niggling blob and not scientific subjects , and all was right with the universe of discourse . [ LiveScienceviaGeekologie ]
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