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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in cognitive perceptual development ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Bodily Self: 1. Embodied social self in early development Philippe Rochat; 2. The development of body representations: the integration of visual-proprioceptive information Stephanie Collins, Chris Moore and Daniel Povinelli; 3. Emergence and early development of the body image Celia Brownell, Margarita Svetlova and Sara Nichols; 4. Gulliver, Goliath and Goldilocks: young children and scale errors Judy DeLoache and David Uttal; Commentary Manos Tskaris; Part II. The Bodies of Others: 5. Developing expertise in human body perception Virginia Slaughter, Michelle Heron-Delaney and Tamara Christie; 6. Children's representations of the human figure in their drawings Maureen Cox; 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 Derek Moore; 8. How infants detect information in biological motion Vincent Reid; 9. The integration of body representations and other inferential systems in infancy Kirsten O'Hearn and Susan C. Johnson; Commentary Kazuo Hiraki; Part III. Bodily Correspondences: Integrating Self and Other: 10. Prepared to learn about human bodies' goals and intentions Teodora Gliga and Victoria Southgate; 11. Imitation in infancy and the acquisition of body knowledge Susan Jones and Hanako Yoshida; 12. Infants' perception and production of crawling and walking movements Petra Hauf and Michelle Power; 13. The body in action: the impact of self-produced action on infants' action perception and understanding Jessica A. Sommerville, Emily Blumenthal, Kaitlin Venema and Kara D. Sage; Commentary Moritz Daum and Wolfgang Prinz