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- Age range: 0 to 2 months
- Developmental pillar:
- Physical and Brain Development
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning and Cognitive Development
- Communication and Language Development
- Physical and Brain Development: How children develop
- Social and Emotional Development: How children feel and connect
- Learning and Cognitive Development: How children think and learn
- Communication and Language Development: How children communicate
Although vision is limited at first, moving objects catch newborns' attention. Babies are likely to track an object with their eyes as long as the target moves slowly.
References
- Banks, M. S., & Salapatek, P. (1983). Infant visual perception. In Haith, M. M., & Campos, J. J. (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology. Infancy and developmental psychobiology. New York: Wiley.
- Johnson, M. H. (1990). Cortical maturation and the development of visual attention in early infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 81