ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the development of visually directed reaching, visual attention, visual accommodation, and related behaviors such as the discovery of the hands. Hands to the midline and clasp are characteristic of the bilateral behavior seen during the fourth month of life as the influence of the tonic neck reflex drops out. The chapter explores preliminary information on the development of blinking to an approaching visible object and also on visual convergence. It suggests that education is a continuing, long-term process and provides the cumulative nature of the process. The chapter reports the results of different attempts to modify the rate of acquisition of visual-motor behaviors by controlled modifications in rearing conditions. It considers the course of development of visual exploratory behavior seemed to reflect the availability of interesting things to look at. The chapter also explores a pilot study on ten infants ranging in age from 1 month to 5 months of age.
