Peculiarities of Formation of Visual Perception in Seven-to-Eight-Year-Old Northern Children and Risk Factors for Early Dysontogeny

The article presents the results of the psychophysiological studies of visual perception in seven-to¬eight-year-old children, who had been born and lived in Arkhangelsk, with different risk factors for early dysontogeny. It is demonstrated that «damaging» factors have negative influences on the formation of the mechanisms of visual perception: visual-motor integration, visual analysis-syntheses and visual-spatial perception. Children from the group with different risk factors of early dysontogeny differ from their fellows from the normal group by the functional immaturity of different indicators of visual perception. Factors such as artificial feeding, toxicosis of the mother in the first part of pregnancy, birth trauma and a perinatal hypoxia have the most negative effect on the functional maturity of visual perception.

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