Overview:

Atkinson, J & Braddick, O (in press). Visual development (Chapter 12). In Zelazo, P.D. (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. OUP

Specific studies:

Teller, DY (1981). The development of visualacuity in human and monkeyinfants. Trends in Neurosciences 4: 21-24.

Regan, D (1977). Speedy assessment of visual acuity in amblyopia by the evoked potential method. Ophthalmologica 175(3): 159-64.

Norcia, AM & Tyler, CW (1985). Spatial frequency sweep VEP: Visual acuity during the first year of life. Vision Research. 25: 1399-1408.

Banks, MS & Bennett, PJ (1988). Optical and photoreceptor immaturities limit the spatial and chromatic vision of human neonates. J Opt Soc AmericaA, 12(5): 2059-2079.

Banks MS & Salapatek P.(1978) Acuity and contrast sensitivity in 1-, 2-, and 3-month-old human infants. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 17: 361-5.
Adams RJ & Courage ML. (1998) Human newborn color vision: measurement with chromatic stimuli varying in excitation purity. J Exp Child Psychol. 68(1): 22-34.
Regal, DM. (1981) Development of critical flicker frequency in human infants. Vision Research 21:549-555.
Apkarian, P (1993) Temporal frequency responsivity shows multiple maturational phases: state-dependent visual evoked potential luminance flicker fusion from birth to 9 months. Vis Neurosci10: 1007–18.
Morrone MC, Fiorentini A, BurrDC (1996) Development of the temporal properties of visual evoked potentials to luminance and colour contrast in infants. Vision Res 36: 3141–55.
Braddick O, Atkinson J (2009) Infants’ sensitivity to motion and temporal change. Optometry & Vision Science 86(6), 577–582.
Shatz CJ (1996) Emergence of order in visual system development. Journal of Physiology-Paris 90(3-4): 141-150
Braddick, OJ, Atkinson, J, Julesz, B, Kropfl, W, Bodis-Wollner, I, & Raab, E. (1980). Cortical binocularity in infants. Nature 288: 363-365.
Braddick, OJ, & Atkinson J (1983). Some recent findings on the development of human binocularity: A review. Behavioural Brain Research 10: 141-150.
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Wattam-Bell J. (1991) The development of motion-specific cortical responses in infants. Vision Res 31:287-297.

Kovacs, I. (2000). Human development of perceptual organisation. Vision Research 40, 1301-1310

Burkhalter, A. (1993). Development of forward and feedback connections between areas V1 and V2 of human visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 3 (5), 476–487
Braddick, O, Birtles, D, Wattam-Bell, J & Atkinson, J (2005). Motion- and orientation-specific cortical responses in infancy. Vision Research 45: 3169-3179.
Braddick, O, & Atkinson, J (2007). Development of brain mechanisms for visual global processing and object segmentation. In C. von Hofsten & K. Rosander (Eds.), From action to cognition (Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 164)Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Gunn, A et al (2002). Dorsal and ventral stream sensitivity in normal development and hemiplegia.Neuroreport 13(6): 843-847.
Wattam-Bell, J et al (2010). Reorganization of Global Form and Motion Processing during Human Visual Development. Current Biology 20(5): 411-415.