How Do Babies Figure Out to be Scared of Heights?

The fear of heights is developed in infants while they are moving around in their environments, a new study explains

The fear of heights is developed in infants while they are moving around in their environments, a new study explains.

Learning to avoid cliffs, ledges, and other precipitous hazards is essential to survival and yet human infants don't show an early wariness of heights.

Limiting Infants Exposure To Smoke At Home
Smoking in the home limits infants’ exposure to tobacco smoke. Infant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke increases the risk of sudden infant

As soon as human babies begin to crawl and scoot, they enter a phase during which they'll go over the edge of a bed, a changing table, or even the top of a staircase.

In fact, research shows that when infants are placed near a virtual drop-off - a glass-covered table that reveals the floor beneath - they seem to be enthralled by the drop-off, not fearful of it.

It's not until later in infancy, at around 9 months, that infants show fear and avoidance of such drop-offs.

Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants
Extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the

And research suggests that infants' experiences with falls don't account for the shift, nor does the development of depth perception.

The study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis
Bronchiolitis, a wheezing much like asthma in adults, is responsible for many hospital admissions of infants.

Source-ANI