Spatial Localization of Touch in the First Year of Life: Early Influence of a Visual Spatial Code and the Development of Remapping Across Changes in Limb Position

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-162

  Bremner, Andrew J ^a,b   Mareschal, Denis ^b   Lloyd Fox, Sarah ^b   Spence, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

infancy; multisensory representation; perceptual development; peripersonal space; somatosensation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIMB; MALE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VISION;

EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39449137537     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.149     Document Type: Article

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