As young as six days old baby's brain appears hardwired for the specialised tasks of seeing faces and seeing places show brain scans of newborns which explains why within hours of birth a baby's gaze is drawn to faces. The findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provide the earliest peek yet into the visual cortex of newborns using harmless functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We've shown that a baby's brain is more adult-like than many people might assume said Frederik Kamps who led the study as a PhD candidate at Emory University in