{"id":10427,"date":"2011-11-29T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/11\/29\/what-we-learn-before-were-born\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:56:58","slug":"what-we-learn-before-were-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/what-we-learn-before-were-born\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learn before we&#8217;re born"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb &#8212; from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011G\/Blank\/AnnieMurphyPaul_2011G-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/AnnieMurphyPaul_2011G-embed.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1289&#038;lang=&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born;year=2011;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=how_we_learn;event=TEDGlobal+2011;tag=Science;tag=children;tag=education;tag=food;tag=writing;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb &#8212; from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ib","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}