Robert Fantz was a developmental psychologists who focused on infant perception and visual experience. Specifically, Fantz was interested in what babies could and could not perceive (PsyBlog, 2007). The methods that Fantz employed to understand infant perception often included setting an infant into an apparatus that limits their vision to two separate images that the baby can choose to focus on. He would then track the infants eye movements to see what types of images babies prefer to look at. Fantz and Miranda (1975) concluded that infants prefer patterns with curved lines over patterns with straight lines (p. 226). In psychology today, we use Fantz's findings to help understand how babies perceive the world (PsyBlog, 2007). Fantz was able to determine preferences in humans that could not yet speak, and his work is still useful today in the study of infant perception and cognitive development.
References
Fantz, R. L. (1975). Newborn Infant Attention to Form of Contour. Child Development, 46, 224-228. doi:10.2307/1128853
PsyBlog (2007, February 9). What Are Babies Watching? [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.spring.org.uk/2007/02/what-are-babies-watching.php
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