Reaching with one arm to the other: Coordinating touch, proprioception, and action during infancy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F19%3A00335899" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/19:00335899 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.014" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.014</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.014</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reaching with one arm to the other: Coordinating touch, proprioception, and action during infancy

Original language description

Reaching to target locations on the body has been studied little despite its importance for adaptive behaviors such as feeding, grooming, and indicating a source of discomfort. This behavior requires multisensory integration given that it involves coordination of touch, proprioception, and sometimes vision as well as action. Here we examined the origins of this skill by investigating how infants begin to localize targets on the body and the motor strategies by which they do so. Infants (7-21 months of age) were prompted to reach to a vibrating target placed at five arm/hand locations (elbow, crook of elbow, forearm, palm, and top of hand) one by one. To manually localize the target, infants needed to reach with one arm to the other. Results suggest that coordination increases with age in the strategies that infants used to localize body targets. Most infants showed bimanual coordination and usually moved the target arm toward the reaching arm to assist reaching. Furthermore, intersensory coordination increased with age. Simultaneous movements of the two arms increased with age, as did coordination between vision and reaching. The results provide new information about the development of multisensory integration during tactile localization and how such integration is linked to action. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

ISSN

0022-0965

e-ISSN

1096-0457

Volume of the periodical

183

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

19-32

UT code for WoS article

000466259000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062330175