ArticleBrain and behavior2020
Fetal eye movements in response to a visual stimulus.
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- The effect of adipose tissue on transdermal monochromatic light presented to the human fetus using Monte Carlo simulations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy.Nature human behaviour · 2024Review
- Spatial Single-cell Analysis Decodes Cortical Layer and Area Specification.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- I like the way you move: how animate motion affects visual attention in early human infancy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Unravelling the functional development of vertebrate pathways controlling gaze.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Fetal eye movements in response to a visual stimulus.Brain and behavior · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionIn 2D ultrasound, the lens of the fetal eye can be distinguished as white circles within the hypoechoic eyeball, and eye movements can be visualized from about 15 weeks' gestation. It has been shown that from 31 weeks gestational age the fetal sensory system is capable of directed vision if enough light is available.
methodsWe have developed a light source for delivering visual stimuli to be seen by the fetal eye, using laser dot diodes emitting at 650 nm. The 2D component of 94 fetal ultrasound scans (mean gestational age 240 days), where the light stimulus was presented, was coded to determine whether the eyes moved in response to the stimuli independent of any head movement.
resultsThe light stimulus significantly provoked head and eye movements, but after the light was withdrawn the head stopped moving, yet the eyes continued to move.
conclusionThis provides evidence for visual attention mechanisms that can be controlled through eye movements that are independent of head movements prior to birth.
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