What they found shocked the scientific community. Nine-minute-old babies who had never before seen a face preferred to look at the drawing of the face that was anatomically correct.
I'm curious about the limits of what a baby can recognize as a face and if a photo of a person with an atypical face would still be seen as a face. Would wearing a nasal cannula prevent a newborn from classifying it as a face? What about a face without one eye or without a nose [e.g. nostrils without that structure as a congenital trait] or with the mouth atypically angled or with a harelip? I'd want to test minutes-old newborns.
