Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I The bodily self
- Part II The bodies of others
- Part III Bodily correspondences
- 10 Prepared to learn about human bodies’ goals and intentions
- 11 Imitation in infancy and the acquisition of body knowledge
- 12 Infants’ perception and production of crawling and walking movements
- 13 The body in action
- Commentary on Part III Body and action representations for integrating self and other
- Index
- References
Commentary on Part III - Body and action representations for integrating self and other
from Part III - Bodily correspondences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I The bodily self
- Part II The bodies of others
- Part III Bodily correspondences
- 10 Prepared to learn about human bodies’ goals and intentions
- 11 Imitation in infancy and the acquisition of body knowledge
- 12 Infants’ perception and production of crawling and walking movements
- 13 The body in action
- Commentary on Part III Body and action representations for integrating self and other
- Index
- References
Summary
The topic of Part III of the present book is the integration of the two previous sections that either focus on the representation of one’s own body or on the representation of another individual’s body. The four contributions of Part III document how these two aspects are integrated during development. In the present commentary, we will first briefly recapitulate the four chapters included in Part III. We will then integrate these finding into a broader picture and suggest a developmental course of body representations. Finally, we will provide an outlook on how future research should approach the topic of the integration of self and other, what the shortcomings of previous research are, and share ideas on how they can be overcome.
Recapitulation
The authors of the four chapters approach the topic of integrating self and other from four different perspectives. Gliga and Southgate (Chapter 10) emphasize the role of actions in infants’ development of body representations. They discuss findings that show that infants first come to build representations about the function of the human body, including goal-directed and intentional actions, before they develop representations about the structure of the human body.
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- Early Development of Body Representations , pp. 267 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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