The First Sights Babies See Sculpt The Brain?s Visual Circuitry

When a newborn baby opens her eyes, she does not see well at all, and it can take months for her world to come into focus. Now scientists have found more clues about what happens in the brains of baby mammals as they try to make visual sense of the world. A study, published in Nature Neuroscience, is part of a project to map the functions of the brain areas that play crucial roles in vision.