Healthy: Babies learn to recognise human faces while still in the WOMB

Babies learn to recognise human faces while still in the WOMB: Incredible 4D scans show fetuses turning their heads to look at 'face-shaped' lights

 

Professor Vincent Reid, a psychologist at Lancaster University who led the research, said the findings provide new insights into how babies’ visual systems develop in the womb. Scientists have discovered that unborn

infants react to light when it is projected through the wall of their mother's uterus if it looks like a face, but not if it is another shape. Using high-quality four dimensional ultrasound scans, they saw the fetuses turn their heads to look towards the light (pictured) if it was in the shape of a human face.