What's in a face?(Bulletins: news about pregnancy, birth and parenting)(infant psychology)(Brief Article)

Publication: Mothering

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A mother's smile, a father's eyes: infants drink a parent's visage. A new study indicates that, from birth, infants are highly sensitive to the shape and structure of the human face, while bodies aren't recognized until sometime in the second year after birth.

In the study, published in Current...

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