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Babies brains’ can follow a beat as soon as they’re born

Two new studies show that infants can categorize some images and sense interruptions in rhythms

Baby with MRI in the background

Keeping a baby still in a function MRI isn't easy. But that's exactly what researchers attempted to test how babies' brains categorize visual objects.

Cusack Lab

By Nora Bradford

For more than a century, psychologists thought that the infant experience was, as the psychologist and philosopher William James famously put it, a “blooming, buzzing confusion.”