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Ok. Let me see!
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Come on, we'll go for a walk.
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Tiki-tiki-tiki-tiki.
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Oh, woo-hoo!
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Hey.
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As adults,
we take walking for granted,
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this incredibly weird
and unique form of locomotion
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that we find ourselves doing all the time.
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But if you really sit
and think about it,
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there's a lot going on.
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An incredible amount of things
have had to come together
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for humans to be able to do this.
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How do you expect a tiny little body
to stand up
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and master that?
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It's the most
important moment of motor development
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during the first year of life.
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It's a particularly
beautiful moment,
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for the first time the baby takes...
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these first steps with confidence.
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One of the main things
that we're interested in looking at is
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not just when do kids walk...
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but what happens to their world
when they walk?
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This is a really
difficult question because...
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really, walking changes
every part of the babies' lives,
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and so where do we even begin
to untangle that whole mess of threads?
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Oh, you are such a globe trotter!
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I think they are very close
to walking, both of them.
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Eloisa pretty much
is standing up all the time.
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The only thing she doesn't do
is just go ahead and walk.
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It looks like
she's more ready than him
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because she is more stable.
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Hello!
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It's always funny
to watch Augusto when he's jumping.
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He just goes really quickly everywhere,
and he looks so happy doing it
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that it makes you laugh every time.
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Didn't you get cared enough?
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When you look at him,
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I think, "Oh, he's a bit slow,
he's not learning as quick as his sister."
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But then he's very clever.
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He can see there's more
than one way to do it.
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And one is more difficult for him,
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so he's clever enough to choose
the easy way
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and just get on with
whatever he wants to do.
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Augusto was
so far away from her
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that I think Eloisa was kind of waiting,
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and one Tuesday
she just did her first steps.
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It was a memorable moment.
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Very Good
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You did it!
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I've always loved science
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and how science helps you understand
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what's around you.
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Growing up
I was fascinated by the laws of nature
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and how humans and animals move.
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I studied physics
and then I turned to neurophysiology,
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and I fell in love with studying
how babies learn to walk.
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When a baby is born
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there's a movement
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that anticipates and resembles walking.
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We call it "newborn stepping."
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So when I had my own babies it was
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the first thing I tested and tried.
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You support about
70% of the baby's weight
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and you put its feet on a flat surface.
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The baby moves its legs alternately,
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one leg slowly in front of the other.
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This is one of the reflexes it has.
It's very mysterious,
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because we don't know
the origins of this reflex.
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In 2010,
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with colleagues
at the Foundation Santa Lucia in Rome,
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we wanted to investigate
if babies are born
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with an innate ability to walk.
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We wanted to know,
was newborn stepping the foundation
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for when the baby walks on its own,
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or was it just a strange behavior
that disappears after birth
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and independent walking is
an entirely new kind of movement?
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Our theory was that newborn stepping
and the baby's first steps were connected.
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- Hi, hello.
- Hi.
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- Thank you for coming,
- Yes, you're welcome.
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And who we got here today?
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This is Benjamin,
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and now he's three weeks old.
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Oh, wow!
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I will just explain a little bit
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what will happen during the experiment.
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So we will put
really, like, small sensors
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to record the muscular activity.
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Okay.
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Everything is safe,
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and everything is properly done
for babies.
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Ready to work.
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Yes?
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That's... He can stay here.
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We did this study in collaboration
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with the Neonatal Department
at the Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome...
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where there were babies
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who were two, three days old.
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Oh, yeah.
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We wanted to look
at the muscular activity
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used in newborn stepping
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and see how it compared
to the muscular activity
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in independent walking.
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Ready?
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Okay.
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We can start.
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Number one.
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So we needed
small sensors
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to capture the muscles electrical activity
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of different muscles in the baby.
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We also applied sensors
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to see how the baby was moving.
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Nobody had studied
newborn walking like this before.
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- Okay?
- Yes.
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Yes!
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Oh, I do remember when they are so young.
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Yes.
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What we're gonna do now
is we start the treadmill,
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and we start to walk.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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So, we go.
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Walking.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Where is your mommy?
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- Where is your mommy?
- I'm here.
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Yeah! Mommy.
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It was challenging research...
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...but beautiful.
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In the end we managed to record 46 babies.
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Previously, technology wasn't advanced
enough to perform such an experiment.
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But we tried and we succeeded,
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I'm happy to say.
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Hey.
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Now we have to test our theory
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and collect more data on toddlers.
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I want to compare them
and see the relationship
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in their stages of walking
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and see if there was any connection
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between newborn stepping
and independent walking.
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You like that.
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That's Mummy's phone.
Just ignore it.
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He's absolutely
shifting his weight
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from the left leg to the right leg,
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and he's trying to use his feet
to get to his toy.
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Good boy, keep coming.
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Ah!
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Nelson, come.
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Come, Nelson. Come. Come.
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Yeah, come.
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Come. All right.
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Do you want to let go,
and you can walk to Mummy?
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Do you want to do that?
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Do you want to walk to me?
Come on then. Come.
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That's my boy.
There you go, little Nelson.
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Come on.
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Nelson is a good boy.
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He's walking now.
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He's a big boy.
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Yes. Yeah.
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You've done such a great job, my son!
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Well done, you. Well done, Nelson.
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Good job!
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Today he walked all the way
from the sitting room,
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and all the way up to here, babe.
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Wow.
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Without grabbing onto anything.
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Proper little chap.
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- Like proper walking.
- Proper little chap!
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I just can't get over...
Look at this. I just can't get over it.
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He's like a little Speedy Gonzales.
Look at that.
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That is just amazing.
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He's gone
from a few really tentative steps
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to, like, just going nuts.
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I hadn't quite grasped
how terrifying this would be.
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Boop!
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Okay, select one
of the baby children.
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So different from the others.
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You're so big.
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- Yes.
- A big boy.
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We wanted to compare
the muscular activity of newborn babies
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with that of toddlers
who could walk independently.
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We tested ten toddlers in total.
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Who is this?
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Oh!
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Well done.
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After the recordings
of all these newborns and toddlers,
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we started analyzing the data.
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Newborn stepping is very simple.
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Only two patterns
of muscle activation are needed
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to deliver the entire muscle movement used
in newborn stepping.
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These patterns
are connected to supporting weight
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when the baby
is in contact with the floor,
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and the other is related
to the movement of swinging.
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When the toddler starts walking,
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they keep these basic patterns
that are present in newborns,
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and this was surprising.
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It's not completely different,
it's not something created from scratch,
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they keep these building blocks
that the baby uses
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to start walking independently.
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The fantastic thing
about these results
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was the confirmation
of our initial hypothesis,
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that the baby is born
with an innate walking skill.
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What was surprising
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was that we found the same
muscular activity of these basic movements
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but there were two additional patterns
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which are needed for when the baby starts
to walk on its own for the first time.
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These two new patterns are...
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The first is related
to the moment of touchdown,
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this phase in which the baby touches
the floor for the first time.
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And the second,
during the phase of push-off,
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the release and propulsion
during the walking phase.
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This way they can control
the muscular force they used to walk,
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and the speed of movement,
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and exactly when and where
they put the foot down.
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This research received a lot of interest,
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and this is fantastic because you think
newborns aren't able to do anything,
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but it's not like that.
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This ability is already there
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when they're born.
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Oh, good boy!
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Good boy.
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You want to stand up?
Stamp, stamp, stamp.
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Stamp, stamp, stamp.
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- Irish jig dancing?
- Yeah.
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At some point,
all babies will start walking.
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Ah!
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It's important
for parents to know that they can
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possibly stimulate
this stepping in newborns.
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Sumo boy.
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Our little man.
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A baby needs to grow
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and develop both its brain
and physical strength
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before it can walk alone.
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That's it. Go on.
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But the more you can encourage
your baby to move and use its muscles,
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the more you will support
their physical development.
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Good girl.
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Oh!
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Augusto doesn't seem
too interested in walking yet.
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Because he's a twin, I can obviously
compare him all the time with Eloisa,
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and I can see he's a late developer.
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At the beginning I was really worried.
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Um, when he was born,
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I immediately noticed he had a weak side.
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Eloisa was two kilos
and 700 grams,
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and Augusto was a little bit under two.
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He was really tiny, so he had to stay
in the incubator for ten days.
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It felt really scary.
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We had him checked, seen by a, um,
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special pediatric development specialist,
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and they gave us a lot of reassurance
that he's fine,
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he doesn't have any problem.
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He's just lower
in the development.
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My area of particular interest
is how exercise,
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um, and physical activity
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ends up reflected in skeletal remains.
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I come from a long line of people
who like to pick up very heavy objects
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and put them down again.
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In my spare time, I am a powerlifter
and a CrossFit instructor.
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My grandfather was a bodybuilder
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and a gymnast.
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He was one of the only people
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to ever do a gymnastics routine
on top of the Empire State Building.
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One of the ideas that's fascinated me
my whole life
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is not only how exercise shapes
and grows your muscles,
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but the fact that it can also shape
and grow your skeleton as well.
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If you do a lot of activity,
your body is gonna lay down more bone.
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If you're a couch potato,
it's gonna take away bone.
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Infants were my big interest
when I was in graduate school.
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What I was really interested
in knowing was,
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how does the young human skeleton
respond to the challenges
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of standing upright
and taking your first steps?
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Hi. Do you want to come?
Do you want to come to Mommy?
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By the way, he can pick himself up now.
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Like, if he fell on the floor,
or if he sat down,
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he can go from sitting position
to standing position to walking.
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In my field,
people have always thought
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that there was
some sort of line in the sand
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where, after a particular age,
the activity that you did
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was affecting your body,
but before that, it wasn't.
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We tended to ignore how activity affects
the bones of very young children,
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of infants and toddlers.
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I realized that there was this huge,
gaping hole, this deficit,
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in our knowledge.
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So in 2006, I visited
about 15 different museums
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throughout Europe and Africa
and the United States and the Middle East,
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essentially carrying
about 130 pounds of scientific equipment
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on my back,
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to look at infant bones.
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I was really interested
in exploring developmental changes,
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uh, but across a broad, uh,
range of time and space.
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Um, so I was looking at individuals
as recent as the 20th century,
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but also dating all the way back
to 250,000 years ago
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across multiple countries and continents.
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One of the things about
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working with the remains
of very young individuals
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is that the remains are very fragile,
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and when you're handling them
and studying them
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it's easy to sometimes think about,
um, the children that they were,
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the children that died thousands,
hundreds, decades ago. Right?
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But if you pay attention to them, right,
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those children get to speak to you
again in a new way.
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You can get these very brief snapshots
at different phases of growth,
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and that's incredibly valuable.
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The data that I collect
is bone cross-sections.
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I mold the outside of the bone
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to get a nice replica
of the outside of the bone cross-section.
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And then I take a couple of X-rays
from different angles,
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in order to reconstruct
the inside of the bone.
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I ended up collecting data
on over 600 infants and children.
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When I got back, what I ended up doing
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was developing
all these different films by hand.
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It was such an enormous relief to see
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the slow, hazy emergence
of these young kids' bones
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finally coming out on film.
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Hmm.
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Yeah, so this one...
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This one's actually pretty small.
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Uh, this one's probably around...
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around one year old, actually.
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Little.
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As I looked at the data,
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I could see that
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there were interesting patterns
in early childhood growth
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that didn't look very much
like adults at all.
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When you look at the cross-section
of an adult leg bone,
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it looks like an upside-down teardrop.
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So it's really long from front to back.
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However, what I was looking at
when I was seeing the kids,
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they were not
this upside-down teardrop shape,
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they were sort of like a wide oval,
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and then it started to normalize
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and go back towards
this adult-like pattern
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by the time they're around five or six.
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Seeing the bones get suddenly wide
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was really surprising
and was really exciting,
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because it looked like there might be
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unique patterns of bone growth
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that you only see in little kids
in response to walking.
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At the time,
this was kind of an unusual idea.
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Uh, we were still stuck in this mindset
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that it was really only adult bones
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that responded to exercise.
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I'll never forget Reviewer 2
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on my very first paper
of trying to publish this,
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who left me a one sentence review
that simply said,
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"Children's bones
don't respond to exercise."
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So that was the kind of pushback
that I was dealing with
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from some members
of the academic community at the time.
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But once I had seen this pattern,
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I really knew that I wanted
to explore this further.
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Um, a unique shape just wasn't enough.
355
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Um, so I started talking
to a few of my colleagues,
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um, about how we could possibly
add some data from living children,
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um, to this issue.
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Now let's see balancey-balancey.
359
00:27:38,857 --> 00:27:40,158
You gotta come and get it.
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00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:42,660
That's it.
361
00:27:42,894 --> 00:27:45,864
Turn yourself around. Good boy!
362
00:27:46,431 --> 00:27:48,566
He just had no interest in crawling,
363
00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:51,603
and then he sort of started cruising
quite a lot,
364
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:54,873
sort of walking around the table
or along the sofa.
365
00:27:55,707 --> 00:27:58,677
Yeah, you've almost got it.
Where's the buzzy bee?
366
00:27:58,743 --> 00:27:59,878
You got it.
367
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:02,480
I still find
that he needs that safety net.
368
00:28:02,547 --> 00:28:04,049
Bzzz!
369
00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:06,260
Even when he's walking up
the corridor,
370
00:28:06,284 --> 00:28:08,186
he's sort of got one hand on the wall,
371
00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:10,155
just as a bit of a safety.
372
00:28:10,588 --> 00:28:12,223
Round the corner.
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Um, I don't feel like he's quite ready yet
to take that hand away.
374
00:28:17,462 --> 00:28:21,966
It's quite a nice sort of comfort for him,
being able to hold onto the side of it.
375
00:28:22,667 --> 00:28:24,703
Come over to Dada. Hey, buddy. Pas.
376
00:28:26,104 --> 00:28:27,238
Hey. Come here.
377
00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:28,772
Come to Dad.
378
00:28:29,274 --> 00:28:30,274
Come on.
379
00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:34,446
Hey!
380
00:28:34,512 --> 00:28:36,481
He looks so happy with himself.
381
00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:37,582
Good walking.
382
00:28:37,982 --> 00:28:39,484
And then all of a sudden it was like,
383
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:41,453
"Oh! Oh, he's doing it."
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00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:44,689
And he sort of did about three
or four steps, and then fell over.
385
00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:47,659
And we were like,
"Wow, that was his first steps."
386
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:48,726
Proud of you.
387
00:28:50,428 --> 00:28:52,063
Yow!
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00:28:52,630 --> 00:28:57,268
It was a real proud moment.
I feel like out of all the milestones
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that a baby has
in the first year of their life,
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00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:03,475
for me, walking was such...
it was a really big one.
391
00:29:03,541 --> 00:29:05,610
- Where's Daddy?
- This one. Come on.
392
00:29:07,145 --> 00:29:09,881
Oh! Hey!
393
00:29:17,021 --> 00:29:19,190
Sometimes I do feel
like a bone detective.
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00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:20,992
Um, it's interesting
395
00:29:21,059 --> 00:29:25,463
because I'm always
investigating this thing,
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00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:26,865
uh, the human skeleton,
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00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:30,401
that most people would not find
that informative,
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00:29:30,468 --> 00:29:34,339
uh, but I had this hunch that
the unique shape of the bone I was seeing
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00:29:34,405 --> 00:29:37,075
in individuals right after
they started walking
400
00:29:37,142 --> 00:29:40,645
had something to do
with shifting their weight back and forth.
401
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:42,814
I needed more information.
402
00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:44,749
I really needed some living babies.
403
00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:46,851
Hi.
404
00:29:47,185 --> 00:29:49,697
- You're gonna give it back?
- No, we're gonna play with the bat.
405
00:29:49,721 --> 00:29:51,589
- The bat is much more exciting.
- Good job.
406
00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:52,891
That's so nice.
407
00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:55,193
I contacted Dr. Cara Ocobock.
408
00:29:55,727 --> 00:30:01,199
She works primarily with locomotion
and activity in living humans.
409
00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:03,468
Yeah, right?
It sure is hard. It's difficult.
410
00:30:04,669 --> 00:30:06,771
You want it?
You can stick it on your hand.
411
00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:08,106
Boop!
412
00:30:08,573 --> 00:30:09,841
So what we're gonna do
413
00:30:09,908 --> 00:30:14,078
is put several of these
kind of all throughout her body,
414
00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:16,014
highlighting the major joints,
415
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,783
so we can see how they move
when she walks across the floor.
416
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:19,684
Don't eat it.
417
00:30:19,751 --> 00:30:22,754
We're gonna see how many
will stay on before they get torn off
418
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:24,222
and put into mouths.
419
00:30:24,522 --> 00:30:26,791
And basically,
when the cameras look at them,
420
00:30:26,858 --> 00:30:29,160
they're turned into this
collection of dots,
421
00:30:29,227 --> 00:30:32,530
and we'll get to see just specifically
how those different joints are moving,
422
00:30:32,697 --> 00:30:35,033
- uh, as they walk along.
- That sounds fine.
423
00:30:35,099 --> 00:30:35,934
Yeah.
424
00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:38,102
Come back, Freddie.
Come back. Yeah.
425
00:30:38,203 --> 00:30:40,538
- Yeah? Big boy.
- Yeah, come back.
426
00:30:40,939 --> 00:30:42,540
You guys are doing great.
427
00:30:43,575 --> 00:30:45,410
I think we're gonna have
some great walkers.
428
00:30:45,476 --> 00:30:46,311
Yeah.
429
00:30:46,377 --> 00:30:50,048
I wanted to test the fact
that babies' bodies can change,
430
00:30:50,114 --> 00:30:54,853
that babies' bodies do actually respond
to exercise and loading,
431
00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:56,955
um, in the same way that adults do.
432
00:30:57,722 --> 00:31:00,201
- Go in. All right, we're gonna...
- We're just going in.
433
00:31:00,225 --> 00:31:02,493
It'll be helpful for you to hold her
when you do.
434
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,531
The type of data that I wanted
to have is called "force plate data."
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00:31:08,299 --> 00:31:11,002
When you look at how adults walk,
436
00:31:11,069 --> 00:31:13,872
the knees are underneath
their center of mass,
437
00:31:13,938 --> 00:31:15,273
underneath their bodies,
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00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:17,408
this allows them to lift up one foot
439
00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:20,678
and not go toppling over
and stay balanced on that stance leg.
440
00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:30,321
One of the things that you see
is that most of their force
441
00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:31,856
is angled front to back.
442
00:31:36,461 --> 00:31:37,829
What we're actually measuring
443
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,031
is something called
"ground reaction force."
444
00:31:40,098 --> 00:31:43,167
You can see, essentially,
the ground pushing back up
445
00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:46,571
at these individuals
who are walking across the force plates.
446
00:31:52,610 --> 00:31:55,055
- Look at Daddy. Go get Daddy.
- Let's go see what Daddy's doing.
447
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:58,616
With these little toddlers,
their legs just go straight down
448
00:31:58,683 --> 00:32:02,854
from the thigh to the knee to the foot,
which results in this really wide base.
449
00:32:02,954 --> 00:32:05,590
You got it. Who is it? Don't let it go.
450
00:32:06,157 --> 00:32:07,992
Where's Dad?
451
00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:08,993
Where's Dad?
452
00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,997
What we needed to measure
was the relative amount
453
00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:15,166
of front-to-back force,
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00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:17,068
also side-to-side force.
455
00:32:17,568 --> 00:32:19,938
Go get him, go get him!
456
00:32:20,004 --> 00:32:22,240
Perfect! That's a good one.
457
00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:27,178
We use 3D imagery
to capture how their body moves
458
00:32:27,245 --> 00:32:29,047
as they walk across the force plate.
459
00:32:31,382 --> 00:32:32,583
One more time, Mabel.
460
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:35,085
One more.
461
00:32:35,420 --> 00:32:37,322
- Yay, Mabel!
- Good job, Mabel.
462
00:32:39,524 --> 00:32:41,602
- Those are perfect.
- That's a beautiful shot.
463
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,895
- Beautiful shot.
- You did so good!
464
00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:45,263
Mabel is our all-star walker.
465
00:32:45,330 --> 00:32:49,233
Each red line is the step
that she's taking, and that's the force.
466
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:50,134
Oh.
467
00:32:50,201 --> 00:32:53,137
She pushes down on the ground
and the ground pushes back up at her.
468
00:32:53,204 --> 00:32:54,872
And so that's what you're seeing.
469
00:32:55,073 --> 00:32:56,207
No.
470
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:57,341
Look at that.
471
00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:00,211
That's fantastic.
472
00:33:06,784 --> 00:33:10,922
It's very seldom that we actually get
to combine skeletal data
473
00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:12,523
with data on living children,
474
00:33:12,590 --> 00:33:14,559
and it couldn't have worked out
more seamlessly.
475
00:33:15,593 --> 00:33:17,261
With the 3D data, we could capture
476
00:33:17,328 --> 00:33:21,165
how young walkers actually do shift
from side to side,
477
00:33:21,232 --> 00:33:25,203
and in addition to that,
the force plates were actually capturing
478
00:33:25,269 --> 00:33:27,138
this side-to-side motion.
479
00:33:29,307 --> 00:33:32,443
Essentially what's happening
is during this very unique,
480
00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:34,879
brief period of development,
481
00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,248
the body is laying down more bone
482
00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:39,250
on the sides of the legs
483
00:33:39,317 --> 00:33:43,421
in order to resist
these forces of toddling back and forth.
484
00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:48,326
It was a long path,
but it was really exciting
485
00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:52,296
to get to the point where I could
finally confirm my original hunch.
486
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:56,734
Once they do manage to stand upright
and start walking,
487
00:33:56,801 --> 00:34:01,005
uh, that this enterprise actually changes
the shape of their skeletons,
488
00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:02,840
and we can actually see that.
489
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:10,260
You gotta jump.
490
00:34:10,314 --> 00:34:11,616
And I have actually...
491
00:34:15,953 --> 00:34:16,954
Your kid's bones
492
00:34:17,021 --> 00:34:21,292
are affected by everything
that child does on a day-to-day basis.
493
00:34:21,426 --> 00:34:24,695
Um, exercise isn't just important
for adults,
494
00:34:24,762 --> 00:34:29,834
the bones that are actively forming
in a child's body need that stimulus
495
00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:31,269
in order to be healthy.
496
00:34:33,037 --> 00:34:34,037
He got it.
497
00:34:35,773 --> 00:34:36,773
Oh, dear.
498
00:34:36,808 --> 00:34:38,309
So letting your kids run,
499
00:34:38,376 --> 00:34:40,678
letting your kids jump,
letting your kids play,
500
00:34:41,045 --> 00:34:45,049
all those things are really important
not only for their metabolic health,
501
00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:47,285
but for the actual health
of their skeleton.
502
00:34:50,021 --> 00:34:50,855
Oh!
503
00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:52,857
Thank you
504
00:34:54,025 --> 00:34:56,737
Do you see the birdies?
Nelson, do you see the birdies?
505
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:57,995
Yeah?
506
00:34:59,964 --> 00:35:02,133
Okay, you want to walk by yourself?
Fair enough.
507
00:35:02,266 --> 00:35:04,168
You're a big boy now.
508
00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:08,806
Good boy!
509
00:35:11,676 --> 00:35:14,245
He's now the one
who's dictating
510
00:35:14,312 --> 00:35:16,314
what's happening around him,
511
00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:19,183
so he's walking towards
what he himself wants to see.
512
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:20,318
Bye-bye!
513
00:35:32,196 --> 00:35:33,498
It's like he was sleeping
514
00:35:33,564 --> 00:35:37,802
and he just, all of a sudden,
woke up to this new, big, wild world.
515
00:35:43,674 --> 00:35:45,042
Good, Nelson.
516
00:35:47,278 --> 00:35:48,980
It's just fascinating to watch him
517
00:35:49,447 --> 00:35:51,048
become his own person.
518
00:35:52,016 --> 00:35:54,128
Although it's a little bit bittersweet,
519
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:59,757
because I see my little baby
kind of just drifting into this toddler.
520
00:36:15,973 --> 00:36:17,575
Travel broadens the mind.
521
00:36:18,242 --> 00:36:21,145
It's true for adults,
and it's also true for babies.
522
00:36:32,957 --> 00:36:35,077
One thing that I've always
been interested in...
523
00:36:36,127 --> 00:36:39,230
When babies begin to walk,
their whole world expands.
524
00:36:40,565 --> 00:36:43,367
They can travel faster, travel further,
525
00:36:45,069 --> 00:36:46,938
point at things in their environment.
526
00:36:48,406 --> 00:36:51,209
Everyday occurrences
become entirely different.
527
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:56,180
One of the big questions
that I've been interested in
528
00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:58,816
is what happens when children
begin to walk,
529
00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:00,818
and how does that change their world?
530
00:37:11,596 --> 00:37:14,999
When I was a graduate student,
I devised an experiment.
531
00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:18,635
Okay.
532
00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:24,008
All right, so we're just
gonna come right in.
533
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,278
We were trying to test whether or not
walking and crawling babies
534
00:37:27,345 --> 00:37:29,347
remember objects differently.
535
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,549
You can just have a seat here
on the couch.
536
00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:32,550
Okay.
537
00:37:32,650 --> 00:37:35,152
And Nadia can just play on the floor,
538
00:37:35,219 --> 00:37:37,255
and I'll be back to check on you
in ten minutes.
539
00:37:37,321 --> 00:37:38,641
- Perfect, thank you.
- All right.
540
00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:43,594
We showed crawling
and walking babies different objects,
541
00:37:43,661 --> 00:37:45,763
we gave an emotion towards those objects,
542
00:37:45,830 --> 00:37:48,933
then we just looked to see
what object did the child play with.
543
00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:50,667
Can you roll it?
544
00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:53,471
There you go.
545
00:37:55,139 --> 00:37:57,074
As part of that experiment,
546
00:37:57,141 --> 00:38:01,312
I happened to give the parent
a language survey.
547
00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:03,147
Hi.
548
00:38:03,214 --> 00:38:04,214
Yeah.
549
00:38:06,784 --> 00:38:07,618
There you go.
550
00:38:07,685 --> 00:38:10,821
And this was primarily just
to distract the parents
551
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:14,058
so they wouldn't interfere during
the actual experiments.
552
00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:16,372
What have you got there?
553
00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:24,734
Yeah.
554
00:38:25,236 --> 00:38:26,236
That's good.
555
00:38:27,104 --> 00:38:31,075
The main finding was not at all
about emotion.
556
00:38:35,413 --> 00:38:36,714
Oh, thank you so much.
557
00:38:37,114 --> 00:38:38,049
Mobile give.
558
00:38:38,115 --> 00:38:40,418
What we learned
from the questionnaire was that
559
00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:44,188
walking infants had
significantly larger vocabulary sizes,
560
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:46,791
both in terms of how many words
they understood,
561
00:38:46,857 --> 00:38:48,577
but also how many words
that they could say,
562
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:50,628
regardless of their age.
563
00:38:51,796 --> 00:38:53,664
Are you playing fetch
with yourself?
564
00:38:53,898 --> 00:38:56,200
That's a doorstop. Can I have the ball?
565
00:38:57,234 --> 00:38:58,369
That's good.
566
00:38:58,769 --> 00:39:01,539
Finding this was a shock,
to say the least.
567
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:05,076
This was something
that we had never seen before.
568
00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:09,246
The next decade or so of my life
would be spent...
569
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:12,850
looking into why there was this difference
570
00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:14,385
that I found by accident.
571
00:39:19,824 --> 00:39:21,959
As a new professor at UC Merced
572
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:24,228
I knew that I really wanted to find out
573
00:39:25,262 --> 00:39:28,699
what is it about walking babies
that's different from crawling babies
574
00:39:28,766 --> 00:39:31,168
that explains this difference
in their language?
575
00:39:40,978 --> 00:39:44,915
My first hypothesis was that
the walking infants would hear more words.
576
00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:47,685
I thought they'd be getting
into more things,
577
00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:49,286
and that would elicit more parent talk
578
00:39:49,353 --> 00:39:51,422
about the things
that they were getting into.
579
00:39:52,990 --> 00:39:55,860
So we went into about 20 families' homes
580
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,029
to really capture
how do parents and children talk
581
00:39:59,096 --> 00:40:01,766
when they're just
in their everyday home environments?
582
00:40:06,370 --> 00:40:08,406
- Come on in, you want to chat out back?
- Sure.
583
00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:10,441
Let's go have a seat.
584
00:40:10,508 --> 00:40:11,508
All right.
585
00:40:12,042 --> 00:40:13,344
Oh, it's so nice out here.
586
00:40:13,677 --> 00:40:14,879
Yeah, it's a lovely day.
587
00:40:15,379 --> 00:40:20,151
So the idea for today's visit is to get
a normal day in Penelope's world.
588
00:40:20,217 --> 00:40:22,353
- Okay.
- So what we want to see is
589
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:26,490
all the words that Penelope hears,
and all the babbling that she does.
590
00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:31,061
And to do that, we're gonna have her
wear this LENA recording device.
591
00:40:31,729 --> 00:40:34,331
Yeah. And so we're going to have
Penelope wear this the whole day.
592
00:40:34,398 --> 00:40:36,500
Once we turn it on,
it just stays recording,
593
00:40:36,567 --> 00:40:38,469
and we'll put it into this little vest
594
00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:40,971
so she can simply wear the vest all day,
595
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:43,445
- and then you don't have to do anything.
- Okay.
596
00:40:43,974 --> 00:40:45,943
Okay. So I think it should fit.
597
00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:47,711
- Yeah.
- You want to give me a hand?
598
00:40:48,145 --> 00:40:50,047
- Let's get you standing up.
- Thank you.
599
00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:53,417
The LENA recording device
is a great tool that researchers can use.
600
00:40:53,484 --> 00:40:55,419
It records all the words
601
00:40:55,486 --> 00:40:56,887
that the child hears,
602
00:40:56,954 --> 00:41:00,424
as well as all the babbling
and talking that the baby might be doing,
603
00:41:00,491 --> 00:41:02,960
and it really gives us
kind of the quantity of language
604
00:41:03,027 --> 00:41:05,463
that the infant is being exposed to
in their day.
605
00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:08,566
- There we go, you're ready.
- Okay. And that's it.
606
00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:12,937
You and Penelope just have a normal day,
go about your daily life,
607
00:41:13,537 --> 00:41:16,006
and then tomorrow
I'll come by and pick it up.
608
00:41:16,707 --> 00:41:17,775
Say "bye-bye."
609
00:41:18,075 --> 00:41:19,075
Bye.
610
00:41:29,186 --> 00:41:30,186
Hello, fox.
611
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:31,622
Do you see the coyote?
612
00:41:31,689 --> 00:41:32,556
Wow.
613
00:41:32,623 --> 00:41:33,924
Whoa!
614
00:41:35,092 --> 00:41:36,527
They're fast, too.
615
00:41:36,961 --> 00:41:38,829
Yeah, the fence.
616
00:41:45,269 --> 00:41:46,504
Yeah, the goats.
617
00:41:48,038 --> 00:41:50,007
- Goats.
- Yeah, goats.
618
00:41:50,474 --> 00:41:51,709
What do goats say?
619
00:41:53,077 --> 00:41:54,645
Goats say "maah."
620
00:41:56,881 --> 00:41:57,961
Kind of like that.
621
00:41:59,884 --> 00:42:01,585
Yeah, that one's up on a log.
622
00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:09,326
This is the output that we get
from the little recording device.
623
00:42:09,393 --> 00:42:14,131
It actually can extract all the words
that the child heard during the day
624
00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:16,433
as well as the words
that she might have said.
625
00:42:16,901 --> 00:42:19,937
What we see here are the ebbs and flows,
the parent talking,
626
00:42:20,004 --> 00:42:24,208
the number of words that the parent said
in five-minute stretches.
627
00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:29,346
So for example, at 10:50,
the child heard 374 adult words.
628
00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:32,416
The other thing that the software
can do for us
629
00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:35,052
is also look at the child's vocalizations.
630
00:42:35,619 --> 00:42:39,490
The last thing that we can look at are
what are called "conversational turn."
631
00:42:40,090 --> 00:42:42,693
So this is almost like a discussion
that might be happening.
632
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,395
A ping-pong happening.
633
00:42:45,629 --> 00:42:47,565
That's a lion.
634
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:49,800
What does a lion say?
635
00:42:53,270 --> 00:42:54,772
What are you doing, bear?
636
00:42:56,106 --> 00:42:58,909
When we looked at the data,
it was pretty clear.
637
00:42:58,976 --> 00:43:01,011
In terms of how much the parents said,
638
00:43:01,145 --> 00:43:04,114
walking and crawling babies
seem to be hearing
639
00:43:04,181 --> 00:43:07,318
the same number of words during a day.
640
00:43:07,384 --> 00:43:10,588
Similarly, walking and crawling infants
seemed to be making
641
00:43:10,654 --> 00:43:13,791
the same number of vocalizations
during the day.
642
00:43:13,857 --> 00:43:15,593
Not at all what I was predicting.
643
00:43:20,464 --> 00:43:24,168
So the next thing we wanted to do
was to peel back another layer and say,
644
00:43:24,234 --> 00:43:27,338
"Well, let's just not look at quantity,
let's actually look at the quality
645
00:43:27,404 --> 00:43:28,639
of the language environment."
646
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:33,043
Particularly those rich segments
during the child's day.
647
00:43:36,947 --> 00:43:38,187
You are a good walker.
648
00:43:40,784 --> 00:43:44,488
So from Penelope's day at the zoo,
we had some really nice interactions.
649
00:43:44,888 --> 00:43:47,458
Oh, look at this black
and white duck coming up.
650
00:43:47,691 --> 00:43:48,691
Hello, duck.
651
00:43:49,193 --> 00:43:51,873
What does the duck say?
652
00:43:52,563 --> 00:43:53,764
Quack, quack, quack.
653
00:43:55,432 --> 00:43:56,432
Is that a rooster?
654
00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:57,900
Bunny.
655
00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:02,339
This little bit really tells me,
as a researcher, a whole lot more.
656
00:44:02,406 --> 00:44:05,376
We hear Penelope trying to say "duck"...
657
00:44:05,676 --> 00:44:06,710
Can you say "duck"?
658
00:44:06,977 --> 00:44:08,612
- Du...
- Duck.
659
00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:11,281
...struggling with it.
The parent then noticing that,
660
00:44:11,348 --> 00:44:14,752
helping to shape that babbling
and repeating the word, "Yes, duck."
661
00:44:14,852 --> 00:44:16,253
- Duck.
- Du...
662
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:17,320
Duck.
663
00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:21,525
And then what does Penelope do?
She learns in that moment
664
00:44:21,592 --> 00:44:23,560
how to pronounce the word "duck."
665
00:44:23,627 --> 00:44:25,262
- Duck.
- Duck.
666
00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:27,064
Good job! Duck.
667
00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:29,231
Yeah, there are ducks in there.
668
00:44:29,266 --> 00:44:32,102
What's really interesting
with a lot of our findings so far
669
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:35,506
is that there are qualitative differences
in how parents are interacting
670
00:44:35,572 --> 00:44:37,484
with their child if they're crawling
and walking.
671
00:44:37,508 --> 00:44:40,644
And that, then,
is one of the main predictors
672
00:44:40,711 --> 00:44:42,246
of the child's vocabulary development.
673
00:44:42,713 --> 00:44:43,793
Let's go this way.
674
00:44:44,314 --> 00:44:47,985
It seemed as if, once they made
that transition from crawling to walking,
675
00:44:48,052 --> 00:44:49,953
no matter what age they were
when it happened,
676
00:44:50,587 --> 00:44:53,891
you saw this inflection
in their vocabulary development,
677
00:44:54,491 --> 00:44:57,294
and, really, this dramatic
increase in terms of
678
00:44:57,361 --> 00:45:00,597
the rate of word learning
has a lifelong impact.
679
00:45:03,467 --> 00:45:06,904
You don't go backwards,
you only go forwards.
680
00:45:10,441 --> 00:45:12,910
- Whoa, careful down the hill.
- He's all right.
681
00:45:12,976 --> 00:45:14,044
You're holding hands.
682
00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:26,690
No matter the age of your child,
683
00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:28,459
talking to your baby is important.
684
00:45:28,892 --> 00:45:30,661
What our research is showing
685
00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:33,230
is that when your child starts walking,
686
00:45:33,297 --> 00:45:34,865
it matters even more.
687
00:45:34,932 --> 00:45:35,933
What is this?
688
00:45:38,302 --> 00:45:40,838
- That is a red river hog.
- What is that?
689
00:45:40,938 --> 00:45:43,640
I think it's really important
to think about development
690
00:45:43,707 --> 00:45:44,742
as interconnected.
691
00:45:45,776 --> 00:45:46,776
This way.
692
00:45:47,478 --> 00:45:49,646
How did something like language
and motor development
693
00:45:49,713 --> 00:45:50,753
and social interactions...
694
00:45:50,814 --> 00:45:52,483
How did they work together
695
00:45:52,916 --> 00:45:57,588
to foster this amazing creature
that's unlike any other?
696
00:45:59,523 --> 00:46:01,892
You're always after the camera.
697
00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:04,361
Easy.
698
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:05,896
Oop-a-la! Oop-a-la!
699
00:46:06,964 --> 00:46:09,133
The first year of life
for these little guys
700
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:10,934
is incredibly challenging.
701
00:46:12,870 --> 00:46:14,905
Oh my God!
Oh, my God, Rich, he just walked!
702
00:46:14,972 --> 00:46:16,612
- He just walked!
- He just walked!
703
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,041
He did just walk. Oh, my God.
704
00:46:18,275 --> 00:46:21,311
I think I dropped the camera there
'cause I was like, "Oh, my God."
705
00:46:21,378 --> 00:46:22,412
He just walked!
706
00:46:22,813 --> 00:46:26,517
But it's something that's going to shape
their body and shape their anatomy
707
00:46:26,583 --> 00:46:27,885
for the rest of their lives.
708
00:46:27,951 --> 00:46:30,120
Thank you for my phone.
709
00:46:30,954 --> 00:46:34,424
There we go. Finally we get you walking.
710
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:39,396
Walking is a complete game changer
for the infant.
711
00:46:40,164 --> 00:46:42,199
It's actually setting them
712
00:46:42,266 --> 00:46:45,335
on a cascade of changes
that are gonna happen.
713
00:46:47,104 --> 00:46:47,971
Hi!
714
00:46:48,038 --> 00:46:51,809
The baby's life is forever changed,
the parent's life is forever changed,
715
00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:53,076
and most importantly,
716
00:46:53,143 --> 00:46:57,047
the way the baby and the parent interact
is forever changed.
717
00:46:57,114 --> 00:46:59,082
Go, go, go!
718
00:46:59,149 --> 00:47:00,751
Kick, kick, kick!
719
00:47:02,186 --> 00:47:03,387
Thank you
720
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:07,691
Thank you
721
00:47:08,192 --> 00:47:09,192
Star!
722
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,729
"Star!" You're right, Nelson. "Star."
723
00:47:14,031 --> 00:47:17,568
Yeah. And that's an orange walking line.
724
00:47:17,634 --> 00:47:23,273
Learning to walk is
the key moment in their development...
725
00:47:24,441 --> 00:47:26,944
because from that moment
the world is theirs
726
00:47:27,010 --> 00:47:28,912
and they can go and conquer it.
727
00:47:50,601 --> 00:47:54,171
Augusto was just jumping
on his bottom, as usual.
728
00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:00,577
And on one of those jumps...
729
00:48:01,578 --> 00:48:04,681
he just stood up and kept on walking,
730
00:48:04,948 --> 00:48:07,384
as if he had been doing that forever.
731
00:48:08,852 --> 00:48:10,287
We're very happy.
732
00:48:10,354 --> 00:48:11,755
It took him some time,
733
00:48:12,256 --> 00:48:14,057
but, yeah, he caught up.
734
00:48:17,628 --> 00:48:18,662
He's always dancing
735
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:21,598
and jumping and proving he can do things.
56829
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