Visuo‐sensory Development of the Child

This paper reviews the development of visual function from pre‐parturition to the time when functional maturity is reached. The discovery of new and ingenious methods for assessing visual function during the past two decades has enabled researchers to up‐date knowledge about visual functional capability. The visuo‐sensory apparatus of the human infant has been shown to be much more advanced at birth than was formerly believed, and it attains near‐normal capacity much earlier than investigators prior to 1950 believed.