A new study indicates that 6-month-old babies are better at face recognition than 9-month-olds -- if the face in question is a monkey. After that, kids apparently realize that it's human faces that count.
"As people get older, they get better and better at detecting the subtle differences in the faces they see a lot: human faces, Nelson said. But at the same time, they lose the ability to detect differences in things they don't see a lot."
As the dad of 5-month-old twins, this comes as a relief. Not that the kids seem to be having any trouble as it is...
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