"Five to eight months

* During these months, control of eye movements and eye-body coordination skills continue to improve.

* Depth perception, which is the ability to judge if objects are nearer or farther away than other objects, is not present at birth. It is not until around the fifth month that the eyes are capable of working together to form a three-dimensional view of the world and begin to see in depth.

* Although an infant's color vision is not as sensitive as an adult's, it is generally believed that babies have good color vision by five months of age.

* Most babies start crawling at about 8 months old, which helps further develop eye-hand-foot-body coordination. Early walkers who did minimal crawling may not learn to use their eyes together as well as babies who crawl a lot."
Source(s):
http://www.aoa.org/x9420.xml
American Optometric Association


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