Newborns enter the world equipped with the neural circuitry to see what’s around them, but their visual acuity is poor and most basic visual functions are immature. Many visual abilities, such as the perception of motion direction, begin to develop soon after birth. The perception of motion, color, and depth continue to mature as infants gain more experience with the world around them. However, our understanding of visual development in humans has been limited because there has been no direct functional evidence from awake infants showing how various visual cortical areas mature.
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