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Science 25 October 1968:
Vol. 162. no. 3852, pp. 473 - 475
DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3852.473
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Monocular Compared to Binocular Depth Perception in Human Infants

Richard D. Walk 1

1 Program in Cognitive and Perceptual Development, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20006

Human infants were made temporarily monocular with an eye patch. They performed like bginocular infants on the visual cliff at visual depths of 25 centimeters or more. At a visual depth of 12.7 centimeters infants younger than 9 months of age revealed a monocular weakness by turning toward the uncovered eye.

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