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Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood Chateu de Rosey, France

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. H. Bloch

    1. Laboratoire de Psycho-Biologie de l’Enfant, EPHE & CNRS, URA 315, Paris, France

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  2. B. I. Bertenthal

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series D: (ASID, volume 56)

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Table of contents (35 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Sensory-Motor Development From the Perspective of Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1
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    2. Motor Skill Development and Neural Networks for Position Code Invariance under Speed and Compliance Rescaling

      • Daniel Bullock, Stephen Grossberg
      Pages 1-22

    3. The Perception-Action Coupling

      • William H. Warren Jr.
      Pages 23-37

    4. Coupling Perception and Action in the Development of Skill: A Dynamic Approach

      • Esther Thelen
      Pages 39-56

    5. On Reconceptualising Sensori-Motor Development in Dynamic Systems Terms

      • George Butterworth
      Pages 57-73

    6. Sensorimotor Factors in Communicative Development

      • Alan Fogel
      Pages 75-88

    7. Situational Analysis: Yes — Radical Systems Theory: No.

      • Arne Friemuth Petersen
      Pages 89-94

  3. Neurobehavioral Development: Motility and Visuo-Motor Coordinations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Neurobehavioural Studies of Sensory-Motor Development and Its Origins

      • Alex F. Kalverboer
      Pages 97-104

    3. Temporal Organizaton in Fetal and Newborn Movement

      • Steven S. Robertson
      Pages 105-122

    4. Categorization and Analysis of Preterm and Fullterm Newborn Motility

      • D. Mellier
      Pages 123-133

    5. Development of Fetal and Neonatal Motor Activity: Implications for Neurology

      • G. Cioni, A. M. Castellacci
      Pages 135-144

    6. Cortical Maturation and Perceptual Development

      • Mark H. Johnson
      Pages 145-162

    7. Status and Function of Early Sensory-Motor Coordination

      • Henriette Bloch
      Pages 163-178

    8. The Goal-Directed Nature of Early Sensory-Motor Coordinations

      • Peter Willatts
      Pages 179-186

    9. Early Perceptual-Motor Development: A Dynamical Systems Perspective

      • Eugene C. Goldfield
      Pages 187-195

  4. Development of Posture and Visual-Vestibular Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Early Visual-Vestibular Interactions and Postural Development

      • François Jouen
      Pages 199-215

    3. Development of Postural Equilibrium During Sitting and Standing

      • Marjorie Hines Woollacott
      Pages 217-230
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About this book

This book is the outcome of a Nato Workshop, held in France in July 1989. The workshop was organized to examine current ideas about sensory-motor organizations during human infancy and their development through early childhood. The study of sensory-motor development is experiencing a profound shift in scope, focus, methodology and theoretical foundations. Many of these changes are quite new and not yet well covered in the literature. We thought it would be useful for some of the leading researchers in this field to convene together and to compare notes, and collectively to establish future directions for the field. The reasons for a new conceptualization of sensory-motor development are no doubt numerous, but three are especially significant: 1. One concerns a shift from studying either sensory or motor processing to investigation of the relations between the two. 2. The second is connected to the new emphasis on action, and its implications for goal-directed and intentional behaviour extending over time. 3. Lastly, new theories and methodologies provide access to new tools for studying and conceptualizing the developmental process. 1.-One of the most enduring legacies of the behaviorist perspective has been a focus on the stimulus and the response to the exclusion of the relation between them (Pick, 1989). Historically, this bias translated into a research agenda in which the investigator was concerned with either perceptual or motor competence, but rarely the relation between them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire de Psycho-Biologie de l’Enfant, EPHE & CNRS, URA 315, Paris, France

    H. Bloch

  • Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    B. I. Bertenthal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood Chateu de Rosey, France

  • Editors: H. Bloch, B. I. Bertenthal

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series D:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2071-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0813-3Published: 31 July 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7430-8Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2071-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-123X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 512

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences

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