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ERIC Number: EJ334843
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Detection of Intermodal Proprioceptive-Visual Contingency as a Potential Basis of Self-Perception in Infancy.
Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Watson, John S.
Developmental Psychology, v21 n6 p963-73 Nov 1985
In three experiments, 5-month-old infants discriminated between a perfectly contingent live display of their own leg motion and a noncontingent display of self or a peer. They showed this discrimination by preferential fixation of the noncontingent display. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Body Image, Infants, Motion, Visual Stimuli
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Contingency Theories; Proprioception Tests; Self Perception Theory