Depth Perception, Locomotion and Social Referencing

The Applications of the Visual Cliff to Child Development

II. Depth perception of young children/infants: Binocular perception and stereopsis

Effects of eye surgery on binocular depth perception

III. The first experiments of the "visual cliff"

The original experiments using the visual cliff

Human infants (with mothers calling out to their children from opposing sides of the cliff)

IV. Modifications of the original visual cliff experiments

First variations of the visual cliff experiment

Measurement of the cardiac and behavioral responses of prelocomotor and locomotor infants

Assessment of the role of locomotion in depth perception and height wariness

Study one: Relationship between crawling experience and cardiac responses

Study two: Effects of accelerated locomotor experience on crossing the cliff

Study three: Delayed locomotor experience and effects and cardiac response

Study four: Effects of age and duration of locomotor experience on crossing the cliff

Other variations of the visual cliff experiment

Refutation of the theory on the relationship between crawling

The role of neural maturation in child development

Relationship between frequency of falls

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the experimental subjects such as the monocular chicks and the infants only had one eye, they were able to demonstrate depth perception. Similarly, the rats in the original visual cliff experiment, which belong to a species with no binocular stereoscopic vision, were also able to exhibit depth perception (as in the experiment described earlier in the paper). Gibson (1969) concludes that these subjects were able to overcome their inability to perceive depth by using motion to provide them with information about depth (p. 270). Modifications of the original visual cliff experiments The modifications to the original visual cliff experiments by researchers such as Campos and his colleagues assessed different aspects of the infants' responses to the visual cliff. In one of the variations of the experiment, Schwartz, Campos and Baisel (1973) attempted to obtain a more accurate assessment of depth perception by analyzing the cardiac and behavioral responses of 40 prelocomotor and locomotor infants aged five and nine months respectively by lowering the individual infant onto the two sides of the visual cliff. Cardiac reactions were measured by taping Beckman biopotential electrodes over the sternum of the infant (pp. 88-90). The reac
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