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ERIC Number: EJ145305
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Central and Peripheral Vision in Early Infancy
MacFarlane, Aidan; And Others
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 21, 3, 532-538, Jun 76
The size of the effective visual field during the first weeks of life is found to depend on two factors: It increases with age, but contracts in the face of competition from ongoing activity such as fixation of a central stimulus or nonnutritive sucking. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Infants, Perceptual Development, Research, Responses, Vision
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