title: Early integrative cognitive development in human infants.
abstract: This article argues that the multimodal processing of sensorial flows is a biological property of organisms. Already effective at birth, the multimodal processing of flows organizes the infant's environment and unifies his/her perception, permitting the perception of multimodal but unified objects. The multimodal processing of sensorial flows is also a setting event for self-perception because it allows the infant to resolve two crucial questions: what is the source of the flow and where is the action. Lastly the multimodal processing of sensorial flows identifies very early cognitive processes in newborn infants.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Psychologie et Neurosciences de la Cognition, Université de Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, 76821, France. michele.molina@epeire.univ-rouen.fr
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barbu-Roth
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jouen
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*