Young Timothé, 6-month-old, showing great attention during the motion's display. The target on the forehead is used to compensate for head movement when estimating gaze position. Credit: The BabyLab Grenoble. Humans tend to be captured by things around them that they perceive as pleasurable and aesthetically pleasing. This "sense of beauty" has been widely studied extensively, mostly in experiments that involved adult participants. Researchers at Université Grenoble Alpes recently tried to determine whether infants who are only a few months old also experience a pleasurable mental state while looking at specific things in their surroundings, and if their preferences are aligned with those of adults. The findings of their study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B , confirm this hypothesis, suggesting that humans develop a basic sense of beauty in the earliest stages of life and that this sense gradually develops over time.…