Psychomotor Coordination of Auditory and Visual Space at Birth

24 November 1961

journal article
review article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 134 (3491) , 1692
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.134.3491.1692

Abstract

Before it was 10 minutes old, a human neonate was able to turn its eyes in the direction of an auditory stimulus. This demonstrates that learning is not essential for a crude form of auditory localization, directional oculomotor response, and coordination of auditory and visual functioning.

Keywords

HEARING/IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
INFANT, NEWBORN/PHYSIOLOGY
SPACE PERCEPTION/IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD