This book is an account of human visual brain development, covering both neuroscientific theory and clinical applications. It reviews over twenty years of studies, many from the author's teams at the Visual Development Unit in Cambridge, University College London, and Oxford. The approach is interdisciplinary and translational, moving from basic science to clinical tests for understanding childhood visual disability. The book combines methodologies from developmental neuropsychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision science, paediatric neurology, ophthalmology, and optometry. The b ... More

This book is an account of human visual brain development, covering both neuroscientific theory and clinical applications. It reviews over twenty years of studies, many from the author's teams at the Visual Development Unit in Cambridge, University College London, and Oxford. The approach is interdisciplinary and translational, moving from basic science to clinical tests for understanding childhood visual disability. The book combines methodologies from developmental neuropsychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision science, paediatric neurology, ophthalmology, and optometry. The book consists of nine chapters, each on a different aspect of childhood vision. The book looks at detailed neurobiological models of the developmental interplay between sensation, perception, cognition, and actions, combining them with new tests to identify specific visual deficits in infants and children. The last chapter puts forward the author's ideas and questions for future research, to enable us to understand better not only the science behind human visual development, but ways of optimizing development for children with visual problems.