Kinematic development of infants and their interaction with their mothers during specific tasks

Kaliarntas, K. T. and Ishijima, K. and Momose, K. and Murphy, A. J. and Kawahara, N. and Negayama, K. and Delafield-Butt, J. (2014) Kinematic development of infants and their interaction with their mothers during specific tasks. Gait and Posture, 39 (Supple). S116-S117. ISSN 0966-6362 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.04.160)

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Abstract

Everyday social projects exhibit regular action patterns structured by their motor goals. Shared understanding is developed in infancy in participation in common motor projects by learning anticipations of their motor intention, such as during feeding, being picked up or put down, and in play. Co-operative, participatory games and rituals enacted every day by mothers and babies likely establish distinct, culturally specific motor styles. Generation of non-verbal embodied understanding is dependent on intent participation, and requires co-ordination and contingent timing of actions from both mother and baby. In this study, we examine the action patterns of mothers and their babies from Japan and Scotland during every day games and rituals. Goal-directed movements within these are analysed for their prospective control of action using General Tau Theory, a mathematicopyschophysical theory of prospective perceptual control of movement shown to be universally basic in animal motor control [3] and [4].

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