Development of Infant Reaching Strategies to Tactile Targets on the Face

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F19%3A00335898" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/19:00335898 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00009" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00009</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Development of Infant Reaching Strategies to Tactile Targets on the Face
Original language description
Infant development of reaching to tactile targets on the skin has been studied little, despite its daily use during adaptive behaviors such as removing foreign stimuli or scratching an itch. We longitudinally examined the development of infant reaching strategies (from just under 2 to 11 months) approximately every other week with a vibrotactile stimulus applied to eight different locations on the face (left/right/center temple, left/right ear, left/right mouth corners, and chin). Successful reaching for the stimulus uses tactile input and proprioception to localize the target and move the hand to it. We studied the developmental progression of reaching and grasping strategies. As infants became older the likelihood of using the hand to reach to the target - versus touching the target with another body part or surface such as the upper arm or chair - increased. For trials where infants reached to the target with the hand, infants also refined their hand postures with age. As infants became older, they made fewer contacts with a closed fist or the dorsal part of the hand and more touches/grasps with the fingers or palm. Results suggest that during the first year infants become able to act more precisely on tactile targets on the face.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ17-15697Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-15697Y: Robot self-calibration and safe physical human-robot interaction inspired by body representations in primate brains</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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