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Whats it like to be a newborn baby (Neonatal consciousness (Newborns may…
Whats it like to be a newborn baby
Gopnik (2009)
neural systems for selective attention take time to develop
frontal regions
Dorsolateral
Orbitofrontal
Lacking frontal inhibition results in a
lantern consciousness
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Meltzoff & Borton (1979)
Experiment: infants given one or other dummy to suck at 29 days old
Then showed large scale models
Infants looked more at dummy they sucked
Cross modal matching :fire:
Senses are communicating with each other from birth
i.e. they know what something feels like in their mouth and can translate that to real-world objects
Neonatal consciousness
Infant cortex is active throughout sleep-wake cycle
Newborns may experience
synaesthesia
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occurs when stimulation of one sensory channel is perceived in a different sensory channel
Walker et al. (2010)
Preferential looking assessing 3-4mth olds visual-hearing synaesthesia
looked longer at visual display that was congruent with sound changing pitch
Suggests:
syn. response is innate and unlearned
What can newborns perceive?
They have shape and size constancy
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Can discriminate between 2D objects
Trichromatic vision by 2-months
Adult colour vision by 4 months
Kellman & Banks (1998)
Visual acuity is poor, develops rapidly
Auditory perception is good
Perception in newborns