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...called the orienting reflex. When a baby is confronted with a novel sight or sound, he or she can't help focusing on it. By rapidly changing colors, sounds and motions, videos for children effectively force a baby's brain to stay at attention. If his or her gaze wanders, the action quickly rivets it back to the screen...
...Rechele Brooks at the University of Washington. Meltzoff and Brooks knew that long before babies learn to talk, they form emotional connections with parents and caregivers by looking into their eyes. But there's a big cognitive leap between looking at someone's eyes and following that person's gaze to see what he or she is looking at. By tracking at what age babies learn to follow an adult's gaze, Meltzoff and Brooks have been able to establish an early indicator of language ability. It turns out that the earlier a baby follows the gaze of an adult...
...pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited Paris' Botanic Gardens he felt transported: "When I am in the greenhouses and see the strange plants from exotic countries, it is as though I am experiencing a dream." His words ring true when you gaze at his deep painted forests that draw you in until your surroundings dissolve into a magical world of the mind...
...lemonade, evidence of the previous night’s festivities, lay stranded among the office’s state-of-the-art equipment. “It’s time to get our you-know-what together,” Fee said with Falwellian enthusiasm, fixing his gaze on the magazine’s muse, Caitlin B. McKee ’06. Next to her, Lowrey yawned and looked up, flicking an inch of white ash from her jet black cigarette onto Green’s vibrator...
...gaze is direct, incurious but not hostile. It's the signature expression that immediately identifies this portrait of an Afghan schoolgirl as the work of American photographer Steve McCurry. How does he persuade his subjects to look so steadily into his lens? "I find humor a great way to break the ice and connect," he says. "Once you start to talk to people you find they're not that much different." A sense of the common humanity that links different cultures infuses "Face of Asia," an exhibition of his pictures from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and Tibet, the first show...