Sometimes we believe that children have the same visual skills that an adult can have, but it is interesting to know what scientists tell us so we can understand them better.
Recent research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California in Davis, United States, has revealed that Babies process visual information much more slowly than adults.
That is, that what adults can visually recognize between 50 and 70 milliseconds, babies process it at a speed 10 times lower.
When analyzing the eye movements of a group of children between six and 15 months, the scientists found that the visual experience that babies have regarding the changes in their environment are very different from that of adults.
While little ones can perceive eye blinks or movement, they are not able to identify individual moving elements or changing scenes as well as older people.
This difference in the speed in which they assimilate the visual information is because babies are not born with all the fully developed visual abilities, but that their brains are progressively evolving during the first years of life, and so they gradually improve the ability to use visual information to discover the world.
