Children’s pursuit eye movements: a developmental study

We examined the pursuit eye movements of adults and three groups of children 4-6, 8-10, 12-16 years of age. The first experiment compared tracking performance of a partially occluded target with that of a fully visible target. The second experiment examined pursuit abilities of children using a non-cognitive source of information for motion, i.e., proprioception. In this experiment, we compared the ability to track one's own strobe-illuminated …