Less stress, more self-esteem, more physical activity… Our pets are often cited for these benefits, but rarely for their help with cognitive development. However, they also excel in this area. “Children seem to be magnetized by animals that attract their visual attention in an unusual way. A few hours after birth, infants look with greater attraction and curiosity at light configurations that mimic the movement of a chick rather than random characters or figures that reproduce that movement upside down.”, affirms Professor Laurent Begg-Shankland, director of the Directorate of Alpine Sciences and author of a well-documented book; Confronting animals, our emotions, our prejudices, our ambivalence (ed. Odile Jacob).
When the child grows up, this attraction for the animal world does not weaken. “A Photographs of seven-month-old dogs or lizards activate different neural networks…
Source: Le Figaro
