Neural mechanism that senses body position in space is present soon after birth

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Neural mechanism that senses body position in space is present soon after birth

A team of researchers from the University of Turin, New York University and University Hospital of Lausanne, has found that newborn babies have the ability to sense where their body ends and the rest of the world begins in ways similar to adults. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of newborn brains compared to adult brains using electroencephalography.

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