Early development of body representations
Because we engage with the world and each other through our bodies and bodily movements, being able to represent one's own and others' bodies is fundamental to human perception, cognition and behaviour. This edited book brings together, for the first time, developmental perspectives on the...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798115806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Early Development of Body Representations; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Part I The bodily self; 1 Primordial sense of embodied self-unity; Primordial sense of embodied self-unity; Embodied sense of self and unity at birth; Presumed mental weakness of the pre-verbal child; Distinguishing the experiential from the conceptual; Criteria and evidence for basic experiential embodied unity at birth; Primordial sense of an embodied self; Embodied self-experience at birth; Conclusions: from implicit to explicit embodied self-awareness in development; References
- 2 The development of body representations: the integration of visual-proprioceptive informationVisual-proprioceptive intermodal perception in infants; What is the temporal threshold of visual-proprioceptive integration?; How might the temporal discrimination threshold vary?; Visual-proprioceptive integration and the development of the objective self; Conclusion; References; 3 Emergence and early development of the body image; Neural representation of the body and body parts; Precursors in infancy: the body schema; Emergence of the body image: early developments in body self-awareness
- Body structureBody topography; Body parts; Summary: early own-body knowledge; Future directions; References; 4 Gulliver, Goliath and Goldilocks: young children and scale errors; Documentation of the existence of scale errors; Scale errors and the use of visual information for planning versus executing actions on objects; Conclusion; References; Commentary on Part I The embodied mini-me: tracing the development of body representations and their role for self-awareness; The body in the wonderland; The multisensory body; Looking for myself; Mind the body; References; Part II The bodies of others
- 5 Developing expertise in human body perceptionExpert body perception in adulthood; How does visual expertise for the human body arise?; Body detection develops relatively late in infancy; Stimulus generalisation effects in infants' body detection; Conclusion and future directions; References; 6 Children's representations of the human figure in their drawings; Children's early mark-making; The beginnings of representation; The first, recognisable figures; The development of a conventional figure; How universal are children's attempts to draw the human figure?
- The representation of the human figure in different culturesThe sources of cultural influence on children's drawings; Individual characteristics and experiences; Summary; References; 7 Understanding of human motion, form and levels of meaning: evidence from the perception of human point-light displays by infants and people with autism; Levels of human bodily motion; Human motion and PLDs; Development of levels of understanding in infancy; Early sensitivity to human motion; 'Knowledge constraints'; Evidence for perception of the physical properties of the hidden human form
- Attribution of psychological properties in infancy
