The Brain Keeps Its Two Greatest Tricks in Different Rooms. Even in Toddlers.
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A three-year-old is watching a cartoon. On screen, a cloud character stuffs a pelican chick with increasingly dangerous animals; the pelican, visibly uncomfortable, tolerates it. The child laughs, then winces, understanding without being told that the cloud means well and the pelican is suffering, that intentions and feelings are two different things. Somewhere in the right side of the child’s brain, a network for reading other minds is humming. In the left hemisphere, another network pars
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