Babies have advanced facial recognition

Babies respond to faces virtually the same way adults do, even though their visual systems are still developing.

Researchers found this occurs as early as four months. The results fit with the major role human faces play in infant development.

The research may have significance for neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions causing lifelong struggles with facial recognition.

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  2. Lynne Newington

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    I wonder if this is has an effect on children reared in instituons as babies, having impersonal handling for their needs.
    Listening to submissions of mother's forced into having their new borns adopted, some only to learn many years later, they were never claimed by anyone.
    Too sad to contemplate.

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