Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 30 April 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3670, pp. 651 - 654
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3670.651
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Electroretinogram in Newborn Human Infants

Ann B. Barnet 1, Ann Lodge 1, and John C. Armington 1

1 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C.

The electroretinogram of the newborn human shows the x-wave component which was demonstrated by Adrian and others to be a concomitant of photopic visual function in the adult. This finding may provide electrophysiological support for behavioral observations indicating that infants have some color vision and ability to resolve visual stimuli.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Light-Evoked Cortical and Retinal Responses in Premature Infants.
T. P. Fogarty and R. N. Reuben (1969)
Arch Ophthalmol 81, 454-459
   Abstract »    PDF »
Optics and Visual Physiology.
M. L. RUBIN (1966)
Arch Ophthalmol 75, 836-879
   PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)