Little kids prefer fractal patterns from nature
By the time children are three years old, they already have an adult-like preference for the visual fractal patterns common in nature, report researchers. That discovery emerged among children who’ve been raised in a world of Euclidean geometry, such as houses with rooms constructed with straight lines in a simple non-repeating manner, says the study’s lead author Kelly E. Robles, a doctoral student in the University of Oregon’s psychology department. “Unlike early humans who lived outside on savannas, modern-day humans spend the majority of their early lives inside these manmade stru...