An Investigation of Visual-Field Effects in Infant Response to Colour, 1998-2000

The aim of the investigation was to assess if there were visual field biases (taken to be reflective of hemispheric processing asymmetries) in infant response to colour in terms of (1) visual 'attention' (detection and orientation) and (2) memory (storage and retrieval). The particular objectives of the study were to conduct two experiments to ascertain (respectively) if infants displayed (1) preferential orientation to and (2) preferential recognition for colours presented in the left visual field (LVF) relative to those in the right visual field (RVF), indicating a right-hand advantage in the response to colour, of the kind observed for adults.