{"688713":{"#nid":"688713","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Infant visual system categorizes common objects by 2 months of age","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/apurva-ratan-murty\u0022\u003ERatan Murty\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses a new functional MRI \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41593-025-02187-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E which found that at two months old, babies\u2019 visual systems appear ready to distinguish among a variety of common objects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurty says the study\u2019s findings should prompt researchers to reconsider how infants learn to process the world. Cognitive development is often regarded as a bottom-up process, in which \u201cthe early visual regions that encode simpler features develop first, and higher-level regions that encode more complex features emerge later.\u201d Instead, brain maturation is \u201cnon-hierarchical,\u201d he says, with the more complex visual ventral cortex developing before the lateral occipitotemporal cortex.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/apurva-ratan-murty\u0022\u003ERatan Murty\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses a new functional MRI \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41593-025-02187-8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Neuroscience\u003C\/em\u003E which found that at two months old, babies\u2019 visual systems appear ready to distinguish among a variety of common objects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMurty says the study\u2019s findings should prompt researchers to reconsider how infants learn to process the world. Cognitive development is often regarded as a bottom-up process, in which \u201cthe early visual regions that encode simpler features develop first, and higher-level regions that encode more complex features emerge later.\u201d Instead, brain maturation is \u201cnon-hierarchical,\u201d he says, with the more complex visual ventral cortex developing before the lateral occipitotemporal cortex.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-03-03 20:51:36","changed_gmt":"2026-03-04 16:38:55","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Transmitter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/cognitive-neuroscience\/infant-visual-system-categorizes-common-objects-by-2-months-of-age\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"192253","name":"cos-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}