Development of smooth pursuit tracking in young infants

Eye and head movements were measured in a group of infants at 2, 3, and 5 months of age as they were attentively tracking an object moving at 0.2 or 0.4 Hz in sinus or triangular mode. Smooth pursuit gain increased with age, especially until 3 months. At 2–3 months, the lag of the smooth pursuit was...

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Published inVision research (Oxford) Vol. 37; no. 13; pp. 1799 - 1810
Main Authors Hofsten, Claes Von, Rosander, Kerstin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.1997
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Aging
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Child Development
Developmental psychology
Electrooculography
Eye Movements
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Head Movements
Humans
Infant
Infants
Newborn. Infant
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Pursuit, Smooth - physiology
Saccades
Saccades - physiology
Smooth pursuit
Time Factors
Smooth pursuit
Saccades
Infants
Eye movements
Head movements
Human
Head
Vision
Body movement
Development
Perception
Infant
Developmental stage
Experimental study
Pursuit eye movement
Motricity
Saccadic eye movement
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Summary:Eye and head movements were measured in a group of infants at 2, 3, and 5 months of age as they were attentively tracking an object moving at 0.2 or 0.4 Hz in sinus or triangular mode. Smooth pursuit gain increased with age, especially until 3 months. At 2–3 months, the lag of the smooth pursuit was small for the sinusoidal motion but large for the triangular one. At 5 months, smooth pursuit was leading the sinusoidal motion and the lag for the triangular one was small. Head tracking increased substantially with age and its lag was always large.
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ISSN:0042-6989
1878-5646
DOI:10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00332-X