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- Title
How the Baby Learns to See: Donald O. Hebb Award Lecture, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, June 2015.
- Authors
Maurer, Daphne
- Abstract
Hebb's (1949) book The Organisation of Behaviour presented a novel hypothesis about how the baby learns to see. This article summarizes the results of my research program that evaluated Hebb's hypothesis: first, by studying infants' eye movements and initial perceptual abilities and second, by studying the effect of visual deprivation (e.g., congenital cataracts) on later perceptual development. Collectively, the results support Hebb's hypothesis that the baby does indeed learn to see. Early visual experience not only drives the baby's initial scanning of objects, but also sets up the neural architecture that will come to underlie adults' perception.
- Subjects
BRAIN; COGNITION; EYE movements; FACE; FACIAL expression; INFANT psychology; INFANT development; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION (Psychology); VISION; VISUAL perception; EYE movement measurements
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale, 2016, Vol 70, Issue 3, p195
- ISSN
1196-1961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/cep0000096