Summary Of Day Old Infant Observation

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At birth, normal infants have all their neurological substrates. New neurons will be produced by the gyrus dentatus throughout life and dendrites will continue to branch to form new networks, but the basics are there at birth (Kleinberg 2013). In infants, the sensory, motor and visual cortex are the first to mature thus the infant will have a working sensory memory and motor memory (Kleinberg 2013). Day old infants can recognize their mothers’ voice and are able to remember certain stimuli for a delay of up to two weeks (Howe 2011). Week old infants can recognize certain stimuli, like faces, for a period delay of up to two weeks (Cowan 1998).
An infant can copy an action, the imitation occurring over delays of hours or even days. This