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Like other aspects of vision, color vision improves with age. Newborns see color, but they have trouble distinguishing among colors. That is, although they can see both red and green, they do not perceive red as different from green. Early visual experience with color is necessary for normal color perception to develop (Colombo et al., 2015; Sugita, 2004). Habituation studies show that by 1 month of age, infants can distinguish among red, green, and white (Teller, 1997). By 2 to 3 months of age, infants are as accurate as adults in discriminating the basic colors of red, yellow, and blue (Matlin & Foley, 1997; Teller, 1998). By 3 to 4 months of age, infants can distinguish many more colors as well as distinctions among closely related colors (Bornstein & Lamb, 1992; Haith, 1993). Seven-month-old infants detect color categories similar to those of adults; they can group slightly different shades (e.g., various shades of blue) into the same basic color categories as adults do (Clifford, Franklin, Davies, & Holmes, 2009).

Infants see color at birth, and color discrimination improves over the first few months of life.

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