title: Facing the perfect contingency: interactions with the self at 2 and 3 months.
abstract: We used a double video Live-Replay-Live procedure to explore self-self interactions in fourteen 9-week-old infants, repeated at 13-weeks with 10 of these infants. Using multiple measures of behavioural response we found that (1) in all cases where age effects held, duration of response was greater at 9- than at 13-weeks, (2) infants' responses differed according to whether or not self-images were Live or Replay, and (3) age and condition interacted to influence infants' responses. At 9 (but not 13) weeks, the two Live conditions correlated with each other but not with the Replay condition on some measures, indicating that infants apprehended the visual-proprioceptive contingency provided by their actions. Also at 9-weeks only, all infants showed reversals in visual attention with evidence for a bi-modal pattern: 8 preferring the Live conditions and 6 the Replay condition. An explanation based on familiarity and increasing disinterest with specific contexts is suggested.
authors: Centre for the Study of Emotion, University of Portsmouth, UK. vasu.reddy@port.ac.uk <vasu.reddy@port.ac.uk>
authors: Vasudevi
authors: V
authors: Reddy
authors: Vivienne
authors: V
authors: Chisholm
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Forrester
authors: Monia
authors: M
authors: Conforti
authors: Dmitra
authors: D
authors: Maniatopoulou
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011434:Proprioception; D012649:Self Concept; D014741:Video Recording; D014796:Visual Perception