The influence of flicker on infants' orienting toward peripheral targets

Purpose. Previously we showed that, for 3-month-olds, flicker enhances orienting in the temporal, but not the nasal, visual field (ARVO, 1996) Here, we report the results for 4- and 6-month-olds tested with the same procedure. Method. We used static perimetry to measure orienting toward 6° lights with a time-averaged luminance of 5 cd/m² that were either static or flickering at 6 Hz. We compared the proportion of eye movements toward lights …