Baby Sadie attends her 2-month Foundcog scan with her mum, Donna. Credit: Cusack Lab, © 2026, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 New research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin shows that babies as young as two months old can already organize what they see into distinct object categories. This ability appears far earlier than scientists previously believed and suggests that important building blocks of perception are present almost from the very start of life. By combining brain imaging with