title: Visual development.
abstract: This paper summarizes the postnatal development of the visual system in a format that separates the various parts and functions into Input Components, Transmitting Components, Integrative Mechanisms, and Visually Induced Cognitive Behaviour. This treatment of a number of studies and philosophies that comprise the field of infants' vision indicates that most components and mechanisms are fully operative by the end of the second year of life.
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D003315:Cornea / Q000254:growth & development; D005123:Eye / Q000254:growth & development*; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D006956:Hyperopia / Q000151:congenital; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000254:growth & development; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000254:growth & development; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012160:Retina / Q000254:growth & development; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology