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- Title
The Development of Body Structure Knowledge in Infancy.
- Authors
Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Hock, Alyson; White, Hannah; Jubran, Rachel; Galati, Ashley
- Abstract
Although we know much about the development of face processing, we know considerably less about the development of body knowledge-despite bodies also being significant sources of social information. One set of studies indicated that body structure knowledge is poor during the 1st year of life and spawned a model that posits that, unlike the development of face knowledge, which benefits from innate propensities and dedicated learning mechanisms, the development of body knowledge relies on general learning mechanisms and develops slowly. In this article, we review studies on infants' knowledge about the structure of bodies and their processing of gender and emotion that paint a different picture. Although questions remain, a general social cognition system likely engenders similar trajectories of development of knowledge about faces and bodies, and may equip developing infants with the capacity to obtain socially critical information from many sources.
- Subjects
INFANT development; INFANT psychology; FACE perception in infants; BODY schema in children; SOCIAL perception in children
- Publication
Child Development Perspectives, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1750-8592
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdep.12162