Development of smooth pursuit and predictive eye movements in full-term and preterm infants : an occlusion study

When a moving object disappears behind an occluding surface, the prediction of its reappearance must be made across time and space and this not only requires a maintained representation of the existence but also the representation of the trajectory and future location of the object. Developing stable object representations is a remarkable improvement of infants’ capability to coordinate visual perception and motor control in everyday life, where we are constantly surrounded by motion. However, infants born