Sclafani, Valentina, Simpson, E.A., Suomi, S.J. and Ferrari, P.F. (2015) Development of space perception in relation to the maturation of the motor system in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Neuropsychologia, 70 . pp. 429-441. ISSN 0028-3932
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Abstract
To act on the environment, organisms must perceive object locations in relation to their body. Several neuroscientific studies provide evidence of neural circuits that selectively represent space within reach (i.e., peripersonal) and space outside of reach (i.e., extrapersonal). However, the developmental emergence of these space representations remains largely unexplored. We investigated the development of space coding in infant macaques and found that they exhibit different motor strategies and hand configurations depending on the objects' size and location. Reaching-grasping improved from 2 to 4 weeks of age, suggesting a broadly defined perceptual body schema at birth, modified by the acquisition and refinement of motor skills through early sensorimotor experience, enabling the development of a mature capacity for coding space. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
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Keywords: | age, animal, body image, depth perception, female, growth, development and aging, hand, hand strength, male, newborn, personal space, physiology, psychomotor performance, reaction time, rhesus monkey, validation study, Age Factors, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Macaca mulatta, Space Perception |
Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology C Biological Sciences > C820 Developmental Psychology B Subjects allied to Medicine > B140 Neuroscience |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Psychology |
ID Code: | 34832 |
Deposited On: | 12 Apr 2019 09:46 |
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