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How Motor and Visual Experiences Shape Infants' Visual Processing of Objects and Faces
Author(s) -
Schwarzer Gudrun
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
child development perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1750-8606
pISSN - 1750-8592
DOI - 10.1111/cdep.12093
Subject(s) - psychology , crawling , face (sociological concept) , visual processing , cognitive psychology , motor skill , object (grammar) , developmental psychology , perception , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , medicine , social science , sociology , anatomy
Infants' impressive achievements in processing objects and faces during the 1st year of life lead to questions about the factors driving that development. In this article, I review and discuss how infants' experiences that are related to their emerging motor skills and their development of face expertise lead to such crucial developmental agents. During the 1st year of life, infants' visual processing of objects is primarily associated with their object exploration and crawling experiences. Infants' development of face processing is influenced by their increasing experience with face categories that they encounter most frequently. A link also exists between infants' processing of faces, on one hand, and their exploration of objects and their experience with sitting, on the other. Thus, experiences that result from acquiring motor skills seem to facilitate infants' visual processing across domains.