Kids and adults look at things differently

Young children literally see words and faces differently than adults do, according to new research.

Where adults can most easily comprehend a word when they look at it straight on, children need to look a bit up and to the left. For faces, they need to look a bit up and to the right.

What’s more, previously undetected changes in the brain circuits responsible for processing words and faces accompany these differences, the researchers report in Nature Communications.