Cambridge scientists have shown that girls and boys show differences in what they pay attention to, even at birth. Since these differences are present so early, it is possible they emerge due to prenatal factors.
weird that they used manual coding instead of eye tracking software.
this is sold as looking at nature absent of nurture, but I do wonder if there are differences in prenatal treatment of male vs female fetuses that could be at play.
they are trying to show that females are more interested in the face, and males are more likely to be interested in the mechanical thing, but, they needed the infants to look at the screens for long enough during a trial to count, so they had to retry multiple infants. The percentage of male infants who needed to be retrialed was significantly higher than female, suggesting that the male infants were just more likely to be looking all around rather than just at a specific screen.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13293-026-00976-9_reference.pdf
Couple notes on the study.
Seems kind of a shaky study. It’s hard to draw conclusions because you don’t really know the motivation behind the baby’s actions.
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