Al Yonas, Child Development
"The development of visual space perception"

Abstract
     How does the brain take in visual information to perceive spatial layout and spatial events? Anatomy, physiology, psychophysics, and an understanding of the information available in the light that could specify the environment, provide clues to the processes involved.  Another source of explanatory power comes from the study of the development of visual perception. Over the first half year of life, human infants develop the ability to respond to motion, binocular and static-monocular or pictorial depth cues in an orderly fashion. The talk will describe some of these developmental findings and what they suggest about how the brain processes visual information to allow effective action and to generate our knowledge of the world.

Suggested readings

• Yonas, A & Grunrud, C (2006) Infants’ perception of depth from cast shadows, Perception & Psychophysics 68 (1), 154-160
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• Bruggeman H, Yonas A, Konczak J, (2007) The processing of linear perspective and binocular information for action and perception, Neuropsychologia 45, 1420-1426
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