Left hand – right hand, premature babies make the link
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
From the 31st week of pregnancy, preterm babies are capable of recognizing with one hand an object they have already explored with the other. This ability, known as “intermanual transfer”, has been demonstrated in premature infants. These results show that the corpus callosum, also known as the colossal commissure, i.e. the brain structure involved in information transfer, is functional from this early age.