In Conversation: Are babies conscious?

It's a heady question - at what age, inside, or outside the womb, do babies gain 'consciousness'? The University of Melbourne's Olivia Carter discusses the latest research.

Increasing numbers of Australian women over 40 are having babies, new figures show.

In Conversation: Are babies conscious?

Olivia Carter is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

She delves into some recent research which appears to show infants are 'conscious' at an earlier age than many scientists thought. The question may soon be - are foetuses conscious, too?

Read the study Olivia is talking about, published in Science.

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