A groundbreaking study led by Florida Atlantic University (FAU) researchers has discovered the origin of ‘conscious awareness’ in human infants. By analyzing the baby-mobile interaction, the researchers developed a quantitative ‘aha!’ detector to observe abrupt increases in infant movement rates related to sudden infant recognition of their causal powers. They found that the ‘birth’ of agency can be quantified as a ‘eureka-like,’ pattern-changing phase in the brain and the environment. This study demonstrates that infants navigate functional coupling with the mobile in different ways, revealing distinct clusters in the timing and degree of bursts of infant activity. This novel phenotyping method may be useful for preventive care and early treatment of infants at risk.
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