To have and to hold: embodied ownership is established in early childhood.

Kritikos, Ada, Sparks, Samuel, Lister, Jessica, Sofronoff, Katherine, Bayliss, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Slaughter, Virginia (2020) To have and to hold: embodied ownership is established in early childhood. Experimental Brain Research, 238 (2). 355–367. ISSN 0014-4819

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Abstract

We investigated whether embodied ownership is evident in early childhood. To do so, we gifted a drinking bottle to children (aged 24–48 months) to use for 2 weeks. They returned to perform reach–grasp–lift–replace actions with their own or the experimenter’s bottle while we recorded their movements using motion capture. There were differences in motor interactions with self- vs experimenter-owned bottles, such that children positioned self-owned bottles significantly closer to themselves compared with the experimenter’s bottle. Age did not modulate the positioning of the self-owned bottle relative to the experimenter-owned bottle. In contrast, the pattern was not evident in children who selected one of the two bottles to keep only after the task was completed, and thus did not ‘own’ it during the task (Experiment 2). These results extend similar findings in adults, confirming the importance of ownership in determining self–other differences and provide novel evidence that object ownership influences sensorimotor processes from as early as 2 years of age.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	early childhood,embodied cognition,kinematics,ownership,reach-to-grasp actions,preschool-children,perception,possessions,mine,self,history,neuroscience(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2020 04:13
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 00:18
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73500
DOI:	10.1007/s00221-020-05726-w

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