Early development of body representations
By: edited by Virginia Slaughter and Celia A. Brownell
Series: Cambridge studies in cognitive and perceptual development -- 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521763820
Subjects: Social aspects; Body image; Human body; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General
Description: "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 growth of 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 addressing the bodily self, the bodies of others and integrating self and other. Topics include perception and representation of the human form, infant imitation, understanding biological motion, self-representation, intention understanding, action production and perception and children's human figure drawings. Each section includes chapters from leading international scholars drawn together by an expert commentary that highlights open questions and directions for future research"--

"The aim of this series is to provide a scholarly forum for current theoretical and empirical issues in cognitive and perceptual development. As the twenty-first century begins, the field is no longer dominated by monolithic theories. Contemporary explanations build 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 recognized as influencing the emergence and forms of reasoning in children. In perceptual development, the field has moved beyond the opposition of 'innate' and 'acquired' to suggest a continuous role for perception in the acquisition of knowledge"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.