Autori
Turati, Chiara
Bulf, Hermann
Senna, Irene
Longhi, Elena
Addabbo, Margaret
Tagliabue, Paolo

Titolo
Discriminazione tra un movimento possibile e impossibile della mano alla nascita: integrazione tra rappresentazione motoria e visiva
Periodico
Giornale italiano di psicologia
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 941 - Pagina finale: 950

Human adults possess neurophysiological mechanisms which allow to integrate action perception and execution within the observer's own motor representation. The aim of this study is to examine whether these mechanisms are already present at birth. Using a preferential looking paradigm, Experiment 1 investigated whether newborns are able to discriminate between an observed plausible hand movement, whichis already part of their motor repertoire - i.e., possible hand movement, and a similar movement which violates the constraints of human anatomy - i.e., impossible hand movement. Newborns showed a visual preference for the impossible hand movement. Experiment 2 demonstrated that static images did not allow differentiating betweenpossible and impossible hand postures. Overall, evidence suggests that a mechanism linking motor representations of movements which are part of the newborn's motor repertoire and their visual representations is already present at birth.



SICI: 0390-5349(2012)4<941:DTUMPE>2.0.ZU;2-M
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.1421/73150
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