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Orientation discrimination and cortical function in the human newborn

A Slater1, V Morison, M Somers

  • 1Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, UK.

Perception
|January 1, 1988
PubMed
Summary

Newborn infants show visual preferences, suggesting their visual cortex functions at birth. This challenges the idea that early vision relies solely on subcortical pathways, indicating cortical development begins early.

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