ABSTRACT
Achieving gaze control is an important development during the first half-year of life. It is of crucial importance for the extraction of visual information about the world, for directing attention, and for the establishment of social communication. Controlling gaze may involve both head and eye movements and is guided by at least three types of information: visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive. The present chapter deals with how young infants gain access to these different kinds of information, how they come to use them prospectively to control gaze, and how they come to coordinate head and eyes to accomplish gaze control.
