Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

ability, behavior, chicks and chimpanzees, cognition, complex stimulus, current environment, degree, degree of form perception, early assumptions, environment categorization, eye activity, form perception, form preferences, infant, infant perception, light/color/movement, observational studies, past studies, perception, research techniques, researchers, Robert Fantz, shape/pattern/size/solidity, visual abilities, visual preferences

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

The Looking Chamber Experiment refers to a series of studies performed by Robert Fantz in 1961. Before the work of Fantz, little research was conducted on infant perception. There was presupposition that infants held the ability to perceive light, color and movement, yet, lacked the ability to respond to complex stimulus (i.e. shape, pattern, size, or solidity). Fantz and his colleagues were specifically interested in finding the degree in which babies can perceive form to categorize their current environment. They created their research techniques on past observational studies with chicks and chimpanzees. To look at the visual abilities of infants, researchers followed eye activity to examine the way infants recognize different forms and their preference, if any.

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