title: Newborn infant attention to form of contour.
abstract: Human neonates selectively fixated patterns with curved rather than straight contours when the outermost contours differed in this form variable and when quantitative variables were controlled. The presence from birth of a discrimination ability basic to later form perception was evidenced.
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002657:Child Development; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014796:Visual Perception