Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development |
Editors | Brian Hopkins, Elena Geangu, Sally Linkenauger |
Place of Publication | Cambridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 821-835 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Print) | 9781107103412 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2017 |
Abstract
Recent research that uses refined methods of tracing infant’s movements to determine how they are coordinated and integrated proves they are directed in selective ways to take in and adjust to information from the senses about the present environment. It shows that the circumstances and objects of the infant’s actions are evaluated by the infant as ‘good’ (attractive and rewarding or pleasurable), or ‘bad’ (frightening and avoided, or resisted). The manifestations of purposeful, expectant and evaluated consciousness are identified as proof of Self-awareness, or ‘subjectivity’. Studies of the imitative and provocative actions of newborn infants in response to the behaviours of other persons who give close attention to them prove also that there is an innate Other-awareness, or ‘inter-subjectivity’, that attends to and sympathises with expressive movements of a person (Trevarthen, 2001; Kugiumutzakis and Trevarthen, 2015).
Keywords
- human awareness
- human consiousness
- self awareness
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Ontological completion in the adult-infant system
Delafield-Butt, J., 30 Dec 2018, In: PsyArXiv Preprints. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Motor disruption in autism: Implications for social development, and its early identification
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