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Very young children appear to have some skill in navigation. This basic ability to infer the direction and distance of unseen locations develops in ways that are not entirely clear. However, there is some evidence that it involves the development of complex language skills between 3 and 5 years.<ref>Ness, Daniel and Stephen J. Farenga. (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=LQpvAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Knowledge+under+Construction%3A+The+Importance+of+Play+in+Developing+Children%27s+%22&pg=PP1 Knowledge under Construction: The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking]. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.</ref> Also, there is evidence that this skill depends importantly on visual experience, because congenitally blind individuals have been found to have impaired abilities to infer new paths between familiar locations.

One of the original nativist versus empiricist debates was over [[depth perception]]. There is some evidence that children less than 72 hours old can perceive such complex things as [[biological motion]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Simion | first1 = F. | last2 = Regolin | first2 = L. | last3 = Bulf | first3 = H. | year = 2008 | title = A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby | journal = PNAS | volume = 105 | issue = 2| pages = 809–813 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0707021105| pmc = 2206618 | pmid=18174333| bibcode = 2008PNAS..105..809S | doi-access = free }}</ref> However, it is unclear how visual experience in the first few days contributes to this perception. There are far more elaborate aspects of visual perception that develop during infancy and beyond.