Babies from 4-12 Months Benefit from Mother’s Scent in Recognizing Faces

Researchers studied how French infants aged 4-12 months use their mother’s scent to perceive faces.

The ability to perceive faces greatly improves between 4-12 months, with younger infants benefiting the most from their mother’s odor.

Results suggest that older infants can efficiently perceive faces from visual information alone.

Exposure to concurrent sensory inputs from different modalities aids in infants’ sensory learning.