Babies can pick out their favourite Vincent van Gogh painting.
Babies can select their favourite Van Gogh paintings
Researchers have found that tots as young as four months are able to demonstrate their artistic taste by choosing their preferred landscapes from the famous Dutch artist.
Infants favoured many of the same paintings as adults and selected artwork with more edges and curved lines.
The findings suggest that artistic preference is established at a very early age.
Philip McAdams, a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, said: "It was fascinating to find that babies respond to the basic building blocks of the paintings, such as edges and colours, and that these properties could explain large amounts of why babies look at, and adults like, particular artworks.
"Our study also appears to have identified features of adult aesthetics that can be traced back to sensory biases in infancy."