Newborn

• Speech Perception

  • Use prosody to discriminate own language from other languages
  • Ability to discriminate 150 speech sounds

• Visual Capacity

  • Fine spatial discriminations, shape and size constancy
  • Interest in faces: Tracking “three blobs.”
  • Early recognition of faces (mother, etc.) By face processing mechanism (face-hair separation outer contour of head, hairstyle
  • Perceives internal face features

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