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Baby Face -- Harvard Experts Hope Facial Recognition Studies Benefit Autism Research

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston studying the science of how babies read facial expressions say they're hoping their results will prove useful for autism and developmental research. Scientists at Harvard believe emotion detection is so crucial in everyday life that they're willing to cajole babies into an electrode "net" to see how to see how humans first learn to read faces. Even in the home, ABC News' senior health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser told "Good Morning...Full Story
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