Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The psychological revolution that follows the onset of independent locomotion in the latter half of the infant's first year provides one of the best illustrations of the intimate connection between action and psychological processes. In this paper, we document some of the dramatic changes in perception-action coupling, spatial cognition, memory, and social and emotional development that follow the acquisition of independent locomotion. We highlight the range of converging research operations that have been used to examine the relation between locomotor experience and psychological development, and we describe recent attempts to uncover the processes that underlie this relation. Finally, we address three important questions about the relation that have received scant attention in the research literature. These questions include: (1) What changes in the brain occur when infants acquire experience with locomotion? (2) What role does locomotion play in the maintenance of psychological function? (3) What implications do motor disabilities have for psychological development? Seeking the answers to these questions can provide rich insights into the relation between action and psychological processes and the general processes that underlie human development.
Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
Funders: National Science Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: Neurobiology and Development Training Program, エンコウガニ科ヒメムツアシガニ Lambdofalus Anfractus Rathbun の人工飼育によるゾエアの発達と後期幼生について, G2347371103, Experimental Studies on Locomotor Experience, Experimental /Naturalistic Studies on Locomotion, Biomedical Research at San Francisco State University, "Deprivation" and "Enrichment" in Infant Spatial Cognitive Development, Functional approach to social and psychological development with emergence of behavior in infancy, Functional analysis among cognition, emotion, and behavior development in infancy and toddlers
OpenAlex ID: W2154633605