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 and crossing the cliff
Relationship between performance of the Piagetian AB task and crossing the cliff
Visual cliff experiment and social referencing
For decades, researchers have been fascinated with the way infants reach their milestones and acquire their capacity to see, manipulate objects, crawl and develop language. Although the infants' development can be observed in their naturalistic environment, it is difficult to study their growth from a scientific perspective. The apparatus of the visual cliff that was initially created to assess young children's ability to perceive depth has enabled scientists to create a quasi-naturalistic setting and obtain quantifiable ...