7. Children's representations of the human figure in their drawings / 1. Primordial sense of embodied self-unity / Maureen Cox -- 2. The development of body representations : the integration of visual-proprioceptive information / Stephanie Zwicker, Chris Moore and Daniel Povinelli -- 3. Emergence and early development of the body image / Celia A. Brownell, Margarita Svetlova and Sara R. Nichols -- 4. Gulliver, Goliath and Goldilocks : young children and scale errors / Judy S. DeLoache and David H. Uttal -- Commentary on Part I. The embodied mini-me : tracing the development of body representations and their role for self-awareness / Manos Tsakiris -- 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. Infants' perception and production of crawling and walking movements / Petra Hauf and Michelle Power -- 13. 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 on Part II. Yet another approach to development of body representations / 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. Commentary on Part III. Body and action representations for integrating self and other / Moritz M. Daum and Wolfgang Prinz. Commentary on Part III. Body and action representations for integrating self and other / Moritz M. Daum and Wolfgang Prinz.
Summary:
"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."--P. [4] of cover. "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge studies in cognitive and perceptual development ; 13
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