| Self-perception and action in infancy. | |
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PMID: 9835398 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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By 2-3 months, infants engage in exploration of their own body as it moves and acts in the environment. They babble and touch their own body, attracted and actively involved in investigating the rich intermodal redundancies, temporal contingencies, and spatial congruence of self-perception. Recent research is presented, which investigates the spatial and temporal determinants of self-perception and action infancy. This research shows that, in the course of the first weeks of life, infants develop an ability to detect intermodal invariants and regularities in their sensorimotor experience, which specify themselves as separate entities agent in the environment. Recent observations on the detection of intermodal invariants regarding self-produced leg movements and auditory feedback of sucking by young infants are reported. These observations demonstrate that, early in development and long before mirror self-recognition, infants develop a perceptual ability to specify themselves. It is tentatively proposed that young infants' propensity to engage in self-perception and systematic exploration of the perceptual consequences of their own action plays an important role in the intermodal calibration of the body and is probably at the origin of an early sense of self: the ecological self. |
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Authors:
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P Rochat |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Review |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale Volume: 123 ISSN: 0014-4819 ISO Abbreviation: Exp Brain Res Publication Date: 1998 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1999-02-11 Completed Date: 1999-02-11 Revised Date: 2009-11-11 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0043312 Medline TA: Exp Brain Res Country: GERMANY |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 102-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. psypr@emory.edu |
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Body Image Humans Infant Infant Behavior / physiology* Infant, Newborn Motor Activity / physiology* Proprioception / physiology Self Concept* Visual Perception / physiology |
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