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"If you let some babies see red, red, red, and then change the red to blue, their attention goes up. It wanes with repetition," he said. Exactly like adults, he points out. "What does getting bored mean? The first time you see something, it captures your attention, but then you develop memory and a mental representation of what you have seen." The earlier a baby shows a decline in attention with repetition of visual images, the higher his IQ will be at ages 1, 4 and 8, and throughout life, according to research by Bornstein and others. Testing 14 children ages 4 months, 8 months, 1 year and 4 years, and confirming the results with 28 more children up to age 2, Bornstein has drawn two conclusions: Babies who are bored quickly at 4 months with the repetition of the same color or facial expression flashed on a screen are the most verbal at 1 and score the highest on IQ tests at 4 years.

Mothers who focus their baby's attention on objects and demonstrate "didactic teaching behavior" showing how things work and pointing out new objects have the most positive effect on the baby's learning. "Just naming and pointing to a leaf," Bornstein says, "is not as valuable as putting the leaf into the baby's hand, saying, 'This is a leaf. It is and bringing it into the baby's focus. Physical demonstration is more valuable than verbal. It is the hands-on demonstration that matters." Bornstein's research is financed by a $100,000, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the origins of cognitive process (thinking), and another $94,000, two-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study early perceptual development.

Bornstein, bom in Boston, received his bachelor's degree from Columbia and his doctorate from Yale. He and his wife, a lawyer, live in Greenwich Village, and have no children of their own. Research like his into the beginnings of thinking raises the old, profound questions of nature versus nurture. How early in life can we tell about a person's intelligence? What sort of continuity is there? Can we affect early development? Is everyone created equal or is equal opportunity more important? These are the questions that Bornstein, who began to explore the subject after first studying vision, is trying to answer. "In the 1960s," he recalls, "mothers were told to give tender, loving care to their babies.

This was based on studies of institutionalized children. It has little relationship to the cognitive aspects of learning. "It occurred to me that we should shift the focus, because some mothers do a lot of showing and telling naming things, teaching, talking to their babies a lot. Some mothers and babies are in tune and some are out of tune in the transaction or 'dance' they do together. Some mothers capitalize on what their babies do.

Some babies elicit more from their mothers." For their tests at 4 months, 8 months and 1 year, the babies (after naps and feeding) are taken by their mothers to the NYU psychology office. There, at various times, they are videotaped as they watch a screen with flashing pictures of smiling and serious faces, red and blue patches of color, and as small red, green and yellow objects are placed just outside their grasp. "The infant's vocabulary, language and development at 1 year are influenced by the mother," Bornstein observes. "I see mothers who have influenced their babies even at 4 months." Describing his methods as "accessing a baby's mind" to discover what the baby is learning and how quickly, he analyzes the videotapes, measuring eye movements, attention spans and smiles. The smarter the baby, the faster he is bored at the repetition of color and facial expression.

Responses, Bornstein has discovered, do not correlate with weight nor sex, but the mother's "teaching" style seems to make the difference. "Some babies show a decline In their attention span right away; some are In the middle and some take a little longer," Bornstein said. "Is it chance? No. When the babies return, and are tested with a different color and with a different experimenter, the results are the same. Most babies are reliable in their responses." While all mothers interested in child development may find his research valuable, Bornstein believes that mothers of premature babies may find it especially helpful.

AT 8, another TV first. We're giving the controversial "Quest for Fire" its first Florida showing on free TV. "Quest" displays STARTING SUNDAY, South Florida has a whole new source of exciting entertain Florida's new Super Station, TV 33. AT 1:30, It's the original, uncut horror clas -rWZ early man's search for food, shelter, sex and safety so may never be seen on network TV. We're running it graphically, it uncut, so parental discretion is advised.

FINALLY, AT 10, we round out the evening with another sic, "Frankenstein." It's 52 years old, and looks better every time you see it. classic. Cary Grant stars in one of Alfred Hitchcock's best ever, "North by Northwest." It's funny, it's exciting, it's a tongue-in-cheek spy thriller that's everything a movie should be. Purely and simply, it's great entertainment. And that, purely and simply, is what we're going to be.

Your newest source for great TV entertainment. TUNE US IN SUNDAY. And then, waitll you see Monday. AT 3 AND 5, It's a Clint Eastwood double feature. First, Clint teams with last year's Best Actor winner Robert Duvall, In the exciting western, "Joe Kidd." Then, at 5, It's Clint and last year's Best Actress winner, Shirley MacLaine, in the highly acclaimed "Two Mules for Sister Sara." AT 7, we change our tune.

If you couldn't get front row seats at the Orange Bowl, gather the family and catch our Michael Jackson Salute. It's a real thriller, with recent footage never seen here before. Spon sored in part by: IcVs psr Statfosi,.