Change occurs when body meets environment: A review of the embodied nature of development:Embodied nature of development

Maruyama, Shin, Dineva, Evelina, Spencer, John P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-144X and Schöner, Gregor (2014) Change occurs when body meets environment: A review of the embodied nature of development:Embodied nature of development. Japanese Psychological Research, 56 (4). pp. 385-401. ISSN 0021-5368

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges of psychological research in addressing the mechanisms of emergence: how new behavioral patterns and cognitive abilities arise from the interaction of an organism with its environment in real time. We review some of the empirical studies on infant development with reference to Dynamical Systems accounts and relevant views such as the ecological approach to perception and action, and cover topics ranging from early motor skills to goal-directed locomotion and to higher cognitive development. The central claim is that the results of these studies are essentially related: they suggest that there is a fundamental connection among perception, motor behavior, and cognition. In addition, we recount our attempt to re-enact the situatedness and temporal structure of the decision-making processes of human infants by using an autonomous robotic device. We conclude by highlighting several insights from the broad spectrum of studies looking into the embodied nature of adaptive behavior. In our view, such studies are making a profound contribution to uncovering the emergent mechanisms of intellectual and bodily activity throughout development.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	development,embodiment,dynamical systems approach,perception and action,ecological approach
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2015 15:01
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 00:26
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55217
DOI:	10.1111/jpr.2014.56.issue-4

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