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A key brain region responds to faces similarly in infants and adults

The Neuro-Network.

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In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of babies ranging in age from two to nine months, MIT researchers have found regions of the infant visual cortex that show strong preferences for either faces, bodies, or scenes, just as they do in adults.

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