title: Newborn Body Perception: Sensitivity to Spatial Congruency.
abstract: Studies on adults have demonstrated that the perception our own body can be manipulated by varying both temporal and spatial properties of multisensory information. While human newborns are capable of detecting the temporal synchrony of visuo-tactile body-related cues, it remains unknown whether they also utilise spatial information for body perception. Twenty newborns were presented with a video of an infant's face touched with a paintbrush, while their own face was touched either in the spatially congruent, or an incongruent, location. We found that newborns show a visual preference for spatially congruent synchronous events, supporting the view that newborns have a rudimentary sense of their own body.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology Royal Holloway University of London.
authors.forename: Maria Laura
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Filippetti
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione Università degli Studi di Padova.
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Orioli
authors.affiliation: Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College University of London.
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione Università degli Studi di Padova.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Farroni