Locomotor Experience Affects Self and Emotion
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| Title: | Locomotor Experience Affects Self and Emotion |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Uchiyama, Ichiro, Anderson, David I., Campos, Joseph J., Witherington, David, Frankel, Carl B., Lejeune, Laure, Barbu-Roth, Marianne |
| Source: | Developmental Psychology. Sep 2008 44(5):1225-1231. |
| Availability: | American Psychological Association. Journals Department, 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. Tel: 800-374-2721; Tel: 202-336-5510; Fax: 202-336-5502; e-mail: order@apa.org; Web site: http://www.apa.org/publications |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Early Childhood Education |
| Descriptors: | Infants, Motion, Visual Perception, Foreign Countries, Child Development, Self Concept, Emotional Response, Evaluation, Developmental Psychology |
| Geographic Terms: | California, Japan |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0013224 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1649 |
| Abstract: | Two studies investigated the role of locomotor experience on visual proprioception in 8-month-old infants. "Visual proprioception" refers to the sense of self-motion induced in a static person by patterns of optic flow. A moving room apparatus permitted displacement of an entire enclosure (except for the floor) or the side walls and ceiling. In Study 1, creeping infants and prelocomotor/walker infants showed significantly greater postural compensation and emotional responses to side wall movement than did same-age prelocomotor infants. Study 2 used true random assignment of prelocomotor infants to locomotor-training (via a powered-mobility device) and no-training conditions. Experimental infants showed powerful effects of locomotor training. These results imply that locomotor experience is playing a causal role in the ontogeny of visual proprioception. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 19 |
| Entry Date: | 2008 |
| Accession Number: | EJ810641 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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