The Visual World of Infants
By Russell D. Hamer
Discovering what babies can see has been a formidable challenge, but research methods now provide an objective picture of their surprising visual abilities.
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March-April 2016
Volume 104, Number 2
Page 96
DOI: 10.1511/2016.119.96
William James, the great 19th century philosopher and psychologist, once described the sensory-perceptual world of infants as a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” The image James painted raises profound questions that are pragmatic, scientific, and philosophical: How can we know what infants see? Or how can we know what any beings see if they cannot tell us, via language or other unambiguous communicative gesture, of their internal experience?
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