Infants lost in (peripersonal) space?

Bremner, Andrew J.; Holmes, N. P. and Spence, C. 2008. Infants lost in (peripersonal) space? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(8), pp. 298-305. [Article]

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A significant challenge in developing spatial representations for the control of action is one of multisensory integration. Specifically, we require an ability to efficiently integrate sensory information arriving from multiple modalities pertaining to the relationships between the acting limbs and the nearby external world (i.e. peripersonal space), across changes in body posture and limb position. Evidence concerning the early development of such spatial representations points towards the independent emergence of two distinct mechanisms of multisensory integration. The earlier-developing mechanism achieves spatial correspondence by representing body parts in their typical or default locations, and the later-developing mechanism does so by dynamically remapping the representation of the position of the limbs with respect to external space in response to changes in postural information arriving from proprioception and vision.

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.05.003

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology > InfantLab
Research Office > REF2014

Dates:

DateEvent
August 2008Published

Item ID:

7303

Date Deposited:

08 Oct 2012 14:06

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 15:45

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/7303

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