PSY210H1 Chapter 5: PSY210 (Amy Finn) -- Chp 5
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The human visual system is relatively immature at birth; young infants have poor acuity, low contrast sensitivity, and minimal colour vision. Some visual abilities, including perception of constant size and shape, are present at birth; others develop rapidly over the rst year. Binocular vision emerges quite suddenly at around 4 months of age, and the ability to identify object boundaries object segregation is also present at that age. The auditory system is comparatively well developed at birth, and newborns will turn their heads to localize a sound. Young infants" remarkable pro ciency at perceiving pattern in audi- tory stimulation underlies their sensitivity to musical structure. auditory localization: perception of the location in space of a sound source. They learn to identify their mother in part by her unique scent. Through active touching, using both mouth and hands, infants explore and learn about themselves and their environment.
