This week I looked onto my favorite site for new medical discoveries, ScienceDaily.com, to quickly come across a video, linked here, that depicts how a Swedish company has used mathematical ways to alter photographs of parents in a way that shows what an infant’s view of them is.
To
sum up the video, the Swedish company uses a mathematical equation of how to
make an image the quality that a newborn sees, they basically make it less
focused and foggy. They explain this to be the way an infant views the person
roughly 30 centimeters away from them. This distance was determined as the
average distance mothers will cuddle or breastfeed their young newborn. The
Swedish scientists also used the same formula to create an image of the same
photo at distances of 60, and 120 centimeters. The image gets progressively
worse as you get farther away.
One
thing intriguing to me was how even when the infants see this blurred image of
their parents, they are still able to copy facial expressions almost right
after birth. This makes me want to learn more about infants’ brains, eyesight,
and how it changes specifically over time. This new information may be able to
be used when comparing children with eyesight problems to determine how bad
their symptoms may be and possibly even connect it to further studies and
research.
"What a Newborn Baby Sees." ScienceDaily.
ScienceDaily, n.d. Web. 09 Apr. 2016.
Image: http://blog.kidville.com/2013/07/notes-from-the-trenches-diary-of-a-mom-with-a-reflux-baby/#.VxRJYjDhDIV
Image: http://blog.kidville.com/2013/07/notes-from-the-trenches-diary-of-a-mom-with-a-reflux-baby/#.VxRJYjDhDIV
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