Body Representation in the First Year of Life

Autor/inn/en	Zieber, Nicole; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Hayden, Angela; Kangas, Ashley; Collins, Rebecca; Bada, Henrietta
Titel	Body Representation in the First Year of Life
Quelle	In: Infancy, 15 (2010) 5, S.534-544 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00026.x
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Infants; Human Body; Infant Behavior; Child Development; Age Differences; Developmental Stages; Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli; Pictorial Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Menschlicher Körper; Kindesentwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Fantasieanregung
Abstract	Like faces, bodies are significant sources of social information. However, research suggests that infants do not develop body representation (i.e., knowledge about typical human bodies) until the second year of life, although they are sensitive to facial information much earlier. Yet, previous research only examined whether infants are sensitive to the typical arrangement of body parts. We examined whether younger infants have body knowledge of a different kind, namely the relative size of body parts. Five- and 9-month-old infants were tested for their preference between a normal versus a proportionally distorted body. Nine-month-olds exhibited a preference for the normal body when images were presented upright but not when they were inverted. Five-month-olds failed to exhibit a preference in either condition. These results indicate that infants have knowledge about human bodies by the second half of the first year of life. Moreover, given that better performance on upright than on inverted stimuli has been tied to expertise, the fact that older infants exhibited an inversion effect with body images indicates that at least some level of expertise in body processing develops by 9 months of age. (Contains 1 footnote, 1 table, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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