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Child's play is serious study of cause and effect
03-28-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)It's not child's play to Laura E. Schulz, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, to figure out what child's play is all about. She addressed her research at a recent event, "Twisting the Lion's Tail: Exploratory Play and Children's Causal Learning."
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