Visual capacities:
A) improve throughout childhood.
B) worsen throughout childhood.
C) improve in many ways during the first year of life, but babies also lose sensitivity to visual differences they don't need.
D) have no relationship to later social preferences.

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Research has shown that visual capacities improve in many ways during the first year of life, but babies also lose sensitivity to visual differences they don't need. For example, babies born to Japanese mothers showed better sensitivity to differences in faces with slightly different features compared to babies born to American mothers. However, by nine months of age, both groups of babies had lost this ability, suggesting that visual capacities can change and even decline over time.

Visual Capacities