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·June 25, 2021·4 min read

Babies Can See Things That Adults Cannot

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.

This shows a baby looking at a picture of a woman yawning

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·July 30, 2019·2 min read

Do babies like yawning? Evidence from brain activity

The neural basis for a preference of yawning is apparent in babies as young as 5 months.

This drawing shows a baby looking at a face and a baby looking at a picture of a house

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·May 1, 2022·3 min read

Infants Preferentially Perceive Faces in the Upper Visual Field

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.

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·May 21, 2021·2 min read

Infants Recognize Rapid Images, Just Like Adults

Infants take less than one second to completely process visual information. They also have the same temporal limitations in visual processing as adults.