Race and Ethnicity Research. The Census Bureau has a long history of conducting research to improve questions and data on race and ethnicity. Since the 1970s, the Census Bureau has conducted content tests to research and improve the design and function of different questions, including questions on race and ethnicity.
In this article. Babies are born with a full visual capacity to see objects and colors. However, newborns are extremely nearsighted (far away objects are blurry): 1  Newborns can see objects about 8-15 inches away quite sharply. 2  Newborns prefer to look at faces over other shapes and objects and at round shapes with light and dark borders (such as your adoring eyes).
Babies do recognize eye contact from parents as early as two days after birth, according to a 2002 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.. The newborns in the study preferred to look at faces of people who were looking directly at them instead of those with an averted gaze.