The world we live in babies how they feel and how they interpret what is happening around them is one of the interesting topics in the scientific world.

Based on this curiosity, Robert Lowell Fantz decided in 1961 to conduct an experiment on babies. Pretty simple but effective This experiment gave us some clues about how babies perceive the world.

First, let’s get to know Robert Lowell Fantz.

Robert Lowell Fantz, a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, perception of babies He was an American developmental psychologist who pioneered many studies on the subject.

During his apprenticeship “Preferential-Looking Paradigm” He started researching pre-adult minds by developing an experimental method called

He developed a very simple experiment to understand what was going on in a baby’s mind.

Robert Fantz, during his research at the University of Illinois in 1961. what goes on in a baby’s head There weren’t many ways to study it. Fantz found a very easy way to understand this.

only babies their reactions and actions This simple experiment, which he performed by

He built a machine similar to an MRI machine to use in the experiment.

To use it in his experiment, Fantz developed a machine similar to the MR (magnetic resonance) device used in medicine. The screen installed on the ceiling of the device a bull’s eye and a human face put the design.

Later, newborn babies up to 2 months old were placed in the machine so that they could see the barbs on the ceiling. Fantz could see the babies’ eyes through the holes in the top of the machine, but the babies couldn’t see him.

The duration of watching the shapes projected onto the babies varied considerably.

The time the infants spent looking at each of the reflected images was recorded separately. So they can figure out which shape they look at the most. Which attracts the baby’s attention more? could reach.

What figure do you think the subjects looked at with a noticeable difference for longer? Full twice as long They looked longer at the human face. Then the natural shape of the human face and an unusual human face were put on the screen. The subjects again looked at the natural human face with a substantial difference.

Until the “Tracking Experiment” was conducted, the world of babies was thought to be meaningless and chaotic.

This simple experiment is a test of human babies. some shapes and patterns It showed that they can choose. Before Fantz’s experiment, babies were thought to be unable to comprehend anything they saw in the world, to have inadequate visual perception, and to have an erratic perception of the world.

With this experiment, newborn babies a visual distinction and preference It has been proven that he can. In later studies, psychologists have proven that people are born with a certain perception of the “human face”, and this is related to the survival instinct.

• Sources: Science Direct, Guws Medical, Assessment Psychology Board