Research Discovery: Babies can learn to categorize objects using visual cognition at just two months of age.
Diseases Affected: Potentially neurodevelopmental disorders.
Key Findings: By monitoring two-month-old babies with functional MRI as they were shown images and then using AI models to recognize patterns in the MRI brain activity, researchers discovered that infants are learning with visual cognition at a very early age.
What’s Next? This research provides a lot of data for future research about early brain development and what infants are thinking. Its successful use of fMRI with babies who are awake could expand that practice. It could even lead to the development of more efficient learning processes for AI, for lower economic and environmental impact.
Babies categorize objects at just two months old, far earlier than previously thought. Researchers at @tcddublin.bsky.social observed 130 two-month-old infants and recorded their fMRI brain activity patterns, which were analyzed using AI models. #Neurodevelopment #BrainResearch
