Journal article
How the Baby Learns to See: Donald O. Hebb Award Lecture, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, June 2015
Abstract
Hebb's (1949) book The Organisation of Behaviour presented a novel hypothesis about how the baby learns to see. This article summarizes the results of my research program that evaluated Hebb's hypothesis: first, by studying infants' eye movements and initial perceptual abilities and second, by studying the effect of visual deprivation (e.g., congenital cataracts) on later perceptual development. Collectively, the results support Hebb's …
Authors
Maurer D
Journal
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 195–200
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
9 2016
DOI
10.1037/cep0000096
ISSN
1196-1961