Babies Show Signs of Racial Bias at Nine Months

The researchers pointed out that area of the brain processing facial emotions shifted from neural regions in the front to neural regions in the back of the brain during these months. This shift in neural processing helps researchers understand how the brain develops in response to experience during the first year of life.

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Medical references:
- Vogel, M, Monesson, A and Scott, L. (May 2012) "Building biases in infancy: the influence of race on face and voice emotion matching." Developmental Science, 15: 359–372.