1963/10/01 by Richard Held, Alan Hein, Pamela Prado · 6 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology #Child and Animal Learning Development #Religious and Theological Studies
paper · doi:10.1037/h0040546
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Full and exact adaptation to sensory rearrangement in adult human Ss requires movement-produced sensory feedback. Riesen's work suggested that this factor also operates in the development of higher mammals but he proposed that sensory-sensory associations are the prerequisite. To test these alternatives, visual stimulation o f the active member (A) o f each of 10 pairs of neonatal kittens was allowed to vary with its locomotor movements while equivalent stimulation o f the second member (P) resulted from passive motion. Subsequent tests of visually guided paw placement, discrimination on a visual cliff, and the blink response were normal for A but failing in P. When other alternative explanations are excluded, this result extends the conclusions of studies of adult rearrangement to neonatal development. Hebb's writing (1949) has stirred interest