Systems in development: Motor skill acquisition facilitates three-dimensional object completion.
2010/01/01 by Kasey C. Soska, Karen E. Adolph, Scott P. Johnson · 32 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · Mathematics · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Tactile and Sensory Interactions #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
paper · doi:10.1037/a0014618
Abstract
How do infants learn to perceive the backs of objects that they see only from a limited viewpoint? Infants' 3-dimensional object completion abilities emerge in conjunction with developing motor skills--independent sitting and visual-manual exploration. Infants at 4.5 to 7.5 months of age (n = 28) were habituated to a limited-view object and tested with volumetrically complete and incomplete (hollow) versions of the same object. Parents reported infants' sitting experience, and infants' visual-manual exploration of objects was observed in a structured play session. Infants' self-sitting experience and visual-manual exploratory skills predicted looking at the novel, incomplete object on the habituation task. Further analyses revealed that self-sitting facilitated infants' visual inspection of objects while they manipulated them. The results are framed within a developmental systems approach, wherein infants' sitting skill, multimodal object exploration, and object knowledge are linked in developmental time.
Cited by
- Exploration as a mediator of the relation between the attainment of motor milestones and the development of spatial cognition and spatial language.
- Development of three-dimensional mental rotation ability from infancy to preschool age: A longitudinal study
- What have we learned about infant visual attention in the first 25 years of the 21st century?
- Role of manually-generated visual cues in crawling and non-crawling 9-month-old infants’ mental rotation
- A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development
- Infant Sitting Status, Sitting Age, and Everyday Positioning Experience Across the Transition to Independent Sitting
- Understanding developmental cascades and experience: Diversity matters
- Teach to reach: the effects of active vs. passive reaching experiences on action and perception. [europepmc]
- Variability in postural control during infancy: implications for development, assessment, and intervention. [europepmc]
- Not your mother's view: the dynamics of toddler visual experience. [europepmc]
- Reaching experience increases face preference in 3-month-old infants. [europepmc]
- Head-mounted eye tracking: a new method to describe infant looking. [europepmc]
- Fine motor skills and executive function both contribute to kindergarten achievement. [europepmc]
- Physically developed and exploratory young infants contribute to their own long-term academic achievement. [europepmc]
- Posture Development in Infants at Heightened vs. Low Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders. [europepmc]
- Crawling and walking infants elicit different verbal responses from mothers. [europepmc]
- Postural position constrains multimodal object exploration in infants. [europepmc]
- Developmental process emerges from extended brain-body-behavior networks. [europepmc]
- Infants born preterm demonstrate impaired object exploration behaviors throughout infancy and toddlerhood. [europepmc]
- Contributions of head-mounted cameras to studying the visual environments of infants and young children. [europepmc]
- Places and postures: A cross-cultural comparison of sitting in 5-month-olds. [europepmc]
- Multiple Sensory-Motor Pathways Lead to Coordinated Visual Attention. [europepmc]
- Sit to Talk: Relation between Motor Skills and Language Development in Infancy. [europepmc]
- Associations between gross motor and communicative development in at-risk infants. [europepmc]
- The development of motor behavior. [europepmc]
- Hand-Eye Coordination Predicts Joint Attention. [europepmc]
- A novel ecological account of prefrontal cortex functional development. [europepmc]
- Supporting play exploration and early developmental intervention versus usual care to enhance development outcomes during the transition from the neonatal intensive care unit to home: a pilot randomized controlled trial. [europepmc]
- Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling. [europepmc]
- Automated sensing of daily activity: A new lens into development. [europepmc]
- Developing an Understanding of Emotion Categories: Lessons from Objects. [europepmc]
- Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time-distributed, variable practice. [europepmc]
Related