Origins and early development of human body knowledge
By: Virginia Slaughter, Michelle Heron ; in collaboration with Linda Jenkins, Elizabeth Tilse ; with a commentary by Ulrich Müller, Dana Liebermann.
Contributors: Slaughter, Virginia.; Jenkins, Linda, B.A.; Tilse, Elizabeth.; Heron, Michelle.; Müller, Ulrich, 1964-; Liebermann, Dana.
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- serial no. 276, v. 69, no. 2; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- v. 69, no. 2.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Infants -- Development; Body, Human
Other titles: Infants body knowledge
Description: Examines the development of infants' and toddlers' knowledge about human bodies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Levels of human body knowledge in development; title: II. Visual habituation studies : infants' responses to typical and scrambled body pictures; title: III. Object exploration studies : infants' discrimination of typical and scrambled dolls; title: Commentary: Facing the body: toward a developmental theory of body knowledge / Ulrich Müller, Daqna Liebermann.