It was said in the first part that newborn boys look more at mechanical things, and newborn girls look more at human faces. I have heard that newborn children have difficulty to see things; at least their eye movements do not follow moving objects. Could someone give me a better information on this?
EDIT: By the way, I found a study that male and female monkeys prefer different toys. This seems like a more solid evidence for the biological differences. Still curious about the newborns’ eyesight, though.
EDIT2: Use the Wikipedia, duh! Seems like newborns have poor eye coordination and depth perception, but are still very good at recognizing a face of their mother.
Though look at this clip out of the documentary “no more boys and girls”, showing how when adults think babies are the opposite sex than they actually are, they give them toys that match the stereotype.
Thing is, even little babies have environmental influence (There’s even prenatal environmental influence), so just showing behavioral changes in babies doesn’t cut it, that’s why i always wonder how studies suggesting genetic influence are done.
(searched for LW posts on documentaries and found this one, hopefully commenting on old comments is well received :) )
It was said in the first part that newborn boys look more at mechanical things, and newborn girls look more at human faces. I have heard that newborn children have difficulty to see things; at least their eye movements do not follow moving objects. Could someone give me a better information on this?
EDIT: By the way, I found a study that male and female monkeys prefer different toys. This seems like a more solid evidence for the biological differences. Still curious about the newborns’ eyesight, though.
EDIT2: Use the Wikipedia, duh! Seems like newborns have poor eye coordination and depth perception, but are still very good at recognizing a face of their mother.
Though look at this clip out of the documentary “no more boys and girls”, showing how when adults think babies are the opposite sex than they actually are, they give them toys that match the stereotype.
Thing is, even little babies have environmental influence (There’s even prenatal environmental influence), so just showing behavioral changes in babies doesn’t cut it, that’s why i always wonder how studies suggesting genetic influence are done.
(searched for LW posts on documentaries and found this one, hopefully commenting on old comments is well received :) )