Proprioceptive-Visual Integration and Embodied Cognition: A Developmental Perspective.
The present study addressed whether a spatial matching task relying on inter-sensory judgments might be influenced by the transition between egocentric and decentered mode of thinking. Thirty-six children aged 5, 7, or 9 years performed a paramedian correspondence task with conditions requiring inter-sensory integration (visual-proprioceptive) and a problem-solving task. The visual information was given through a mirror that perturbed the sensory judgments in the paramedian correspondence task. The results did not corroborate the hypotheses; nevertheless, the increasing importance of proprioception in the perceptual judgments for older children suggests that although younger children may be body centered (egocentric mode of thinking), older children seemed more able to use body to mediate their perceptual judgments.
Study Group on Action Development and Motor Intervention, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ejmanoel@usp.br.
Edison de J
Ede J
Manoel
Study Group on Action Development and Motor Intervention, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Pedro Fernando
PF
Viana Felicio
Study Group on Motor Behaviour, University of City of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Cristiane
C
Makida-Dionísio
Study Group on Motor Behaviour, University of City of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Rafael Do
RD
Nascimento Soares
Study Group on Motor Behaviour, University of City of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Alessandro
A
Freitas
Study Group on Motor Behaviour, University of City of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Roberto
R
Gimenez
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
Proprioception; development; embodied cognition; inter-sensory integration