Infant Response to Impending Optical Collision
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- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 9 (5) , 549-554
Abstract
Young infants withdraw their heads when shown a display simulating a rectangle rotating towards their faces. The head withdrawal is specific to that transformation and is not elicited by a similar transformation which does not specify approach. This is possible evidence of an unlearned ability to pick up information about change of position in the third dimension.Keywords
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