Babies pay attention with down payment from immature brain region

Using an approach that uses fMRI (or functional magnetic resonance imaging) to scan the brains of awake babies, a team of university psychologists show that when focusing their attention infants under a year of age recruit areas of their frontal cortex, a section of the brain involved in more advanced functions that was previously thought to be immature in babies.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210318142524.htm