The development of sensory motor and cognitive capacities in early infancy from sensation to cognition butterworth university of sussex isbn 9780863775123 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Research on the development of human infants has revealed remarkable capacities in recent years instead of stressing the limitations of the newborn the modern approach is now more optimistically based on an assessment of the adaptive capabilities of the infant innate endowment coupled with interaction with the physical and social environment enables a developmental transition from processes deeply rooted in early perception and action to the cognitive and language abilities typical of . Topics covered include basic exploratory processes of early visual systems in early perception and action face perception in newborns species typical aspects of human communication imitation perception of the phonetic structure of speech origins of the pointing gesture handedness origins and development theoretical contributions on perception and cognition implicit and explicit . The development of sensory motor and cognitive capacities in early infancy chapter 12 from perception to action the early development of knowledge over the past 20 years or so a growing body of data on early perceptual competence has forced a change in the prevalent image of the young infant. The development of sensory motor and cognitive capacities in early infancy from perception to cognition butterworth university butterworth university of sussex butterworth university of sussex