title: Developmental biodynamics: brain, body, behavior connections.
abstract: This special section, Developmental Biodynamics: Brain, Body, Behavior Connections, celebrates a renewed and revitalized interest in the study of motor development. The renewed interest has been sparked by advances in the neurosciences, biomechanics, and behavioral sciences and, importantly, in the attempts to integrate theories and findings across these disciplines. In this introduction to the special section, we consider the contributions that have led to a reinvigorated field of motor development and to its new interdisciplinary look. We highlight the papers in the special section by discussing how they illustrate related advances across research in the neurosciences, biomechanics, and behavioral sciences and how progress across these domains has come to define and characterize the emerging field of developmental biodynamics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Lockman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thelen
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*