Seeing Touches Early in Life

摘要: The sense of touch provides fundamental information about the surrounding world, and feedback our own actions. Although is very important during earliest stages life, to date no study has investigated infants’ abilities process visual stimuli implying touch. This explores developmental origins ability visually recognize touching gestures involving others. Looking times orienting responses were measured in a preference task, which participants simultaneously presented with two videos depicting no-touching gesture human body parts (face, hand) and/or an object (spoon). In Experiment 1, 2-day-old newborns 3-month-old infants viewed videos: one video moving hand touched static face, other stopped before it. Results showed that only 3-month-olds, but not newborns, differentiated from gesture, displaying for former over latter. To test whether could manifest preferential response when part different 2 touching/no-touching or inanimate object—i.e., spoon- moved towards hand. Newborns able discriminate hand-to-hand they did any object-to-hand present findings speak favour early interaction between parts.