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Very young children (even as young as 3 years old) can read intention and preferences in the eyes of a person, but they do not recognize this type of nonverbal communication in the gaze of a humanoid ...

Babies love faces. Newborns, for example, orient toward the face of the person holding them and the best focal distance for their eyes is the distance to that face. Within a few months, babies pay ...