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BBC NEWS: Toys have lasting impact on brain

Tests of baby owls show that things learned in youth transfer to adulthood. The study shows that "learning new skills very early in life prompts neurons in the brain to build new connections that still work into adulthood."

Goodness, think what reading to kids at an early age is doing! Let's go out and build more neural connections in the children we work with.

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