Tiny Babies Who Can Smell Their Mother Recognize Faces Better

"We knew babies can combine their senses, says Tessa Dekker, who studies visual development at University College London. But it wasn't clear if this applied to smells."

"The findings expand scientists' understanding of the role that multisensory perception plays in early learning," said Arnaud Leleu, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Burgundy in France.

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