Event overview
The multisensory baby (or babies have bodies!).
Lecture by Dr. Andrew Bremner, Dept of Psychology, Goldsmiths
Abstract:
Despite a rich history of theory and emprical research into the development of multisensory integration, almost all questions concerning early cognitive development are still investigated by examining infants' responses to unimodal visual (and occasionally bimodal visual-auditory) perceptual stimuli. I will argue that we must begin to investigate infants' and children's abilities with respect to a multisensory environment because: i) inferences about competence in a unimodal task may severely under- or over-estimate ability in an ecological multisensory environment, and ii) the neglect of the body senses (touch, proprioception etc.) in infancy research means that we know next to nothing about the development of infants' perceptions of their own bodies and their understanding about how they fit into the external (visual-auditory) environment. I will illustrate this argument with some of my own data concerning the early development of spatial representations of the body and the peripersonal environment (the environment within reach).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Oct 2008 | 4:00pm - 5:15pm |
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