In her clinics with toddlers, Landa teaches parents to imitate the way their children play, which may help build communication circuits in the brain.

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The 1948 book Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener, inspired Louis Barron to build electronic circuits, which he manipulated to generate sounds.

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