Study reveals very young infants can perceive objects that older infants, children, and adults can not see due to a phenomenon called visual backward masking.
The neural basis for a preference of yawning is apparent in babies as young as 5 months.
The upper visual field bias for faces emerges at around 7 months of age. Babies over 7 months developed a preference for memorizing the upper portions of a face.
Infants take less than one second to completely process visual information. They also have the same temporal limitations in visual processing as adults.
