Early development of body representations

302 Pages·2012·3.366 MB·English

by  Virginia Slaughter, Celia A Brownell

Early Development of Body Representations
EditedbyVirginiaSlaughterandCeliaA.Brownell
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
fundamentaltohumanperception,cognitionandbehaviour.Thiseditedbook
bringstogether,forthefirsttime,developmentalperspectivesonthegrowthof
body knowledge in infancy and early childhood and how it intersects with
other aspects of perception and cognition. The book is organised into three
sections,addressingthebodilyself,thebodiesofothersandintegratingself
andother.Topics include perception andrepresentation of the humanform,
infant imitation, understanding biological motion, self-representation, inten-
tion understanding, action production and perception and children’s human
figure drawings. Each section includes chapters from leading international
scholarsdrawntogetherbyanexpertcommentarythathighlightsopenques-
tionsanddirectionsforfutureresearch.
virginia slaughter is Professor of Developmental Psychology and a
principal researcher in the Early Cognitive Development Centre at the
UniversityofQueensland,Australia.
celia a. brownell isProfessorofPsychologyandDirectoroftheEarly
Social Development Lab in the Department of Psychology, University of
Pittsburgh.
CambridgeStudiesinCognitiveandPerceptualDevelopment
Serieseditors
GiyooHatano†, UniversityoftheAir,Chiba,Japan
KurtW.Fischer, HarvardUniversity,USA
Advisoryboard
GavinBremner, LancasterUniversity,UK
PatriciaM.Greenfield, UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,USA
PaulHarris, HarvardUniversity,USA
DanielStern, UniversityofGeneva,Switzerland
EstherThelen, IndianaUniversity,USA†
Theaimofthisseriesistoprovideascholarlyforumforcurrenttheoreticalandempirical
issuesincognitiveandperceptualdevelopment.Asthetwenty-firstcenturybegins,the
fieldisnolongerdominatedbymonolithictheories.Contemporaryexplanationsbuild
on the combined influences of biological, cultural, contextual and ecological factors
in well-defined research domains. In the field of cognitive development, cultural and
situational factors are widely recognised as influencing the emergence and forms of
reasoning in children. In perceptual development, the field has moved beyond the
oppositionof‘innate’and‘acquired’tosuggestacontinuousroleforperceptioninthe
acquisitionofknowledge.Theseapproachesandissueswillallbereflectedintheseries,
whichwillalsoaddresssuchimportantresearchthemesastheindissociablelinkbetween
perceptionandactioninthedevelopingmotorsystem,therelationshipbetweenpercep-
tualandcognitivedevelopmentandmodernideasonthedevelopmentofthebrain,the
significanceofdevelopmentalprocessesthemselves,dynamicsystemstheoryandcon-
temporaryworkinthepsychodynamictradition,especiallyasitrelatestothefoundations
ofself-knowledge.
Titlespublishedintheseries
1.JacquelineNadelandGeorgeButterworth, ImitationinInfancy
2.MargaretHarrisandGiyooHatano, LearningtoReadandWrite:ACross-Linguistic
Perspective
3.MichaelSiegalandCandidaPeterson, Children’sUnderstandingofBiologyand
Health
4.PaulLightandKarenLittleton, SocialProcessesinChildren’sLearning
5.AntonioM.Battro, HalfaBrainisEnough:TheStoryofNico
6.AndrewN.MeltzoffandWolfgangPrinz, TheImitativeMind:Development,
EvolutionandBrainBases
7.NiraGranottandJimParziale, Microdevelopment:TransitionProcessesin
DevelopmentandLearning
8.HeidiKeller,YpeH.PoortingaandAxelSchölmerich, BetweenCultureandBiology:
PerspectivesonOntogeneticDevelopment
9.NobuoMasataka, TheOnsetofLanguage
10.AndreasDemetriouandAthanassiosRaftopoulos, CognitiveDevelopmental
Change:Theories,ModelsandMeasurement
11.KurtW.Fischer,JaneHolmesBernsteinandMaryHelenImmordino-Yang, Mind,
BrainandEducationinReadingDisorders
12.PierreR.DasenandRameshC.Mishra, DevelopmentofGeocentricSpatial
LanguageandCognition:AnEco-culturalPerspective

Early Development of Body
Representations
Editedby
Virginia Slaughter and
Celia A. Brownell
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Contents
Listoffigures pageix
Listoftables xi
Listofcontributors xii
PartI Thebodilyself 1
1 Primordialsenseofembodiedself-unity 3
philippe rochat
2 Thedevelopmentofbodyrepresentations:theintegrationof
visual-proprioceptiveinformation 19
stephanie zwicker, chris moore and daniel
povinelli
3 Emergenceandearlydevelopmentofthebodyimage 37
celia a. brownell, margarita svetlova and sara
r. nichols
4 Gulliver,GoliathandGoldilocks:youngchildrenandscaleerrors 59
judy s. deloache and david h. uttal
CommentaryonPartI Theembodiedmini-me:tracingthe
developmentofbodyrepresentations
andtheirroleforself-awareness 69
manos tsakiris
PartII Thebodiesofothers 79
5 Developingexpertiseinhumanbodyperception 81
virginia slaughter, michelle heron-delaney
and tamara christie
6 Children’srepresentationsofthehumanfigureintheirdrawings 101
maureen cox
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viii Contents
7 Understandingofhumanmotion,formandlevelsofmeaning:
evidencefromtheperceptionofhumanpoint-lightdisplaysby
infantsandpeoplewithautism 122
derek g. moore
8 Howinfantsdetectinformationinbiologicalmotion 146
vincent reid
9 Theintegrationofbodyrepresentationsandotherinferential
systemsininfancy 163
kirsten o’hearn and susan c. johnson
CommentaryonPartII Yetanotherapproachtodevelopmentofbody
representations 183
kazuo hiraki
PartIII Bodilycorrespondences:integratingselfandother 191
10 Preparedtolearnabouthumanbodies’goalsandintentions 193
teodora gliga and victoria southgate
11 Imitationininfancyandtheacquisitionofbodyknowledge 207
susan jones and hanako yoshida
12 Infants’perceptionandproductionofcrawlingandwalking
movements 227
petra hauf and michelle power
13 Thebodyinaction:theimpactofself-producedactiononinfants’
actionperceptionandunderstanding 247
jessica a. sommerville, emily j. blumenthal,
kaitlin venema and kara d. sage
CommentaryonPartIII Bodyandactionrepresentationsfor
integratingselfandother 267
moritz m. daum and wolfgang
prinz
Index 283