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Day 10 news response

Madelyn Perkovich

   Today in reading Scientific American, I found news of a breakthrough in fetal development. Babies in the womb can actually respond to visual stimuli of faces. Medicine has always been able to study the reaction of babies to music and sound, but never vision. Doctors shined a light that had three dots that resembled a face into the womb, and then another three dots that didn't resemble a face. The babies were more than twice as likely to respond to the face like dots. This is believed to be the case because faces are one of the first things babies see, so they tend to favor them. This breakthrough could help to discover autism in babies earlier because face recognition could play a big role in studying the babies development.

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