38 – Perceptual-Motor Development I: Traditional Approach

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A look at perceptual-motor development from an information processing, stage-based perspective. What is the relative importance of genetics and early experience? Are their critical periods in which perceptual and motor skills must develop? What is an efference copy?
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Articles/links:
What Is Motor Development? The Lessons of History
Infancy and Human Growth
Effects of visual deprivation on morphology and physiology of cells in the cat’s lateral geniculate body
Extent of recovery from the effects of visual deprivation in kittens
Movement-produced stimulation in the development of visually guided behavior
Organization of Early Skilled Action
The Principle of Reafference: Interactions between the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Organs
Paralysis of the Awake Human: Visual Perceptions

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