Babies Color Vision In Infants

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Vision is the least developed sense of babies at birth; when baby grows, he or she develops own vision perception too. Newborn infants accept the new world, when they open their eyes. Babies' first sight of the world is blurry. During first few weeks from the birth, babies can see about the difference of the lightness, which are black and white. The sensory aspects of infants’ color vision have been extensively studied. It is well established that young infants can make chromatic discriminations. For example, 2-month-olds can discriminate most large, high purity chromatic stimuli from white (Teller, Peeples, & Sekel, 1978) and infants’ chromatic discrimination capacities improve with age (Clavadetscher et al., 1988 and Dobkins et al., 2001).

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