Two Modes of Perceiving the Self

Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Rose, James L.

doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(05)80017-2

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“…In perceiving selfmovement, one typically has an ego view, whereas in perceiving the movement of objects or others one generally has an observer view. This distinction is reminiscent of Bertenthal's (1993) idea of knowledgebased constraints in perceiving point light information, and also fits with the idea that there are two modes of perceiving the self: one for controlling actions and another for recognizing objects (Bertenthal, 1996;Bertenthal & Rose, 1995). Along these lines, perceiving-for-action might (at an early age) be essentially tied to ego-centered information, with recognition of self-movement-arguably a prerequisite for perceivingfor-action-also constrained by such information.…”

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Visual‐Proprioceptive Intermodal Perception Using Point Light Displays

Schmuckler

Fairhall

2001

Child Development

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Three experiments explored 5- and 7-month-old infants' intermodal coordination of proprioceptive information produced by leg movements, and visual movement information specifying these same motions. The visual information took the form of point light information for leg and feet movements, with visual displays presented in upright, ego-centered on-joint (Experiment 1, N = 48); upright, ego-centered off-joint (Experiment 2, N = 48); and inverted, observer-centered off-joint (Experiment 3, N = 48) orientations. Measures of preferential looking indicated intermodal perception in infants of both ages while seeing on-joint, ego-centered orientations, and for 7-month-olds (and possibly 5-month-olds) while seeing off-joint, ego-centered displays; neither age group demonstrated intermodal perception for off-joint, observer-centered displays. These results suggest that coordination of visual and proprioceptive inputs is constrained by infants' information processing of the displays, and have implications for infants' growing understanding of their self-movement and the development of knowledge of the self.

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Visual‐Proprioceptive Intermodal Perception Using Point Light Displays

Schmuckler

Fairhall

2001

Child Development

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“…Research demonstrated that by the third month, and possibly from birth, infants have a sense of their own agency (Siqueland and DeLucia, 1969;Kalnins and Bruner, 1973;Lewis et al, 1985), and of their own body as an object among others. In support of such precocious differentiation, neonates have been reported to respond differentially to actual movements of their own body and to movements of external objects that are not accompanied by contingent vestibular stimulation (Jouen and Gapenne, 1995; see also Harris et al, 1974, Kellman et al, 1987and Bertenthal and Rose, 1995 for similar evidence with 4-month-old infants). Consistent with such findings in support of an early sense of the own body as a differentiated entity, Rochat and Hespos (1997) found that neonates and 4-week-old infants were rooting differentially to self-vs. external cutaneous stimulation of the perioral region.…”

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To reach or not to reach? Perception of body effectivities by young infants

Rochat

Goubet

Senders

1999

Inf. Child Develop.

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Two experiments compared 6-month-old infants as they reach for an object. All were proficient reachers but with different levels of sitting ability. The object was presented at various distances, within and beyond reach of the infant. In the first experiment, the scaling of perceived reachability in infants with different postural abilities (i.e. non-sitter, near-sitter, and sitter infants) was explored. The second experiment investigated the role of proprioception in the scaling of perceived reachability by non-sitter and sitter infants. In general, results suggest that perceived reachability is calibrated in relation to the degree of postural control achieved by the infant. Infants demonstrate a sense of their own situation in the environment as well as a sense of their own body effectivities. Both determine the execution, or non-execution, of reaching for a distal object by young infants.

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“…It is important to emphasize that for successful performance in the moving room task it is not necessary for the direction or the amplitude of the postural sway to be perceived explicitly. Rather, the key is that both dimensions are used implicitly by the visuomotor system to produce the appropriate compensatory actions (Bertenthal & Rose, 1995; Lee, 1993). It is necessary to detect both the orientation and the inertia of the trunk to restore it to a more stable posture.…”

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Perception–action coupling in the development of visual control of posture.

Bertenthal¹,

Rose²,

Bai³

1997

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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In this investigation of developmental changes in the coordination of perceived optical flow and postural responses, 4 age groups of infants (5-, 7-, 9-, and 13-month-olds) were tested while seated on a force plate in a "moving room." During each trial the walls oscillated in an anteroposterior direction for 12 s, and the postural sway of the infant was measured. The results revealed that infants perceived the frequency and amplitude of the optical flow and scaled their postural responses to the visual information. This scaling was present even before infants could sit without support, but it showed considerable improvement during the period when infants learn to sit. Taken together, these results suggest that the visuomotor coordination necessary for controlling sitting is functional prior to the onset of independent sitting but becomes more finely tuned with experience.

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Two Modes of Perceiving the Self

Cited by 13 publications

References 42 publications

Visual‐Proprioceptive Intermodal Perception Using Point Light Displays

Visual‐Proprioceptive Intermodal Perception Using Point Light Displays

To reach or not to reach? Perception of body effectivities by young infants

Perception–action coupling in the development of visual control of posture.

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