title: Visual constraints in the development of action.
abstract: The chapter's aim is to understand the role of visual information in the control of avoidance and interception behaviors in infancy from the ecological psychology approach to perception and action. We show that during infancy developmental change in action is associated with the use of different information sources and that this process of attunement promotes the perceived action possibilities (affordances). In the final section, we position these findings within Milner and Goodale's two-visual system model, which holds that perception and action are mediated by two functionally and neuron-anatomically separate visual (sub-)systems.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Savelsbergh
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caljouw
authors.forename: Paulion
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van Hof
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van der Kamp
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003423:Critical Period, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000254:growth & development; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*