Visual behaviour in the newborn baby

Summary

It was shown that optical divergence of the eyes does not imply an inability by newborn babies to fixate binocularly, and that they will demonstrate his ability when an appropriate stimulus is presented.

Keywords

Stimulus (psychology), Psychology, Fixation (population genetics), Optometry, Pupil

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