BARTEN, SYBIL; BIRNS, BEVERLY; and RONCH, JUDAH. Individual Differences in the Visual Pursuit Behavior of Neonates. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 313-319. The purpose of this study was to determine whether stable individual differences in amount of visual pursuit exist at birth. Babies presented with 2 moving stimuli at 2 days of age and retested 24 hours later showed high day-to-day correlations in amount of oculocephalic pursuit of both stimuli and also in ocular pursuit of the stronger stimulus. These two responses seemed to be on a single dimension.
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