Discrimination by young infants of stimuli presented discontinuously.
Four experiments are reported showing that young infants can pick up visual information from very brief displays. Pattern, edge orientation, and form can be discriminated when stimuli are presented for repeated exposures of only 300 ms.
D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013997:Time Factors