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Commentary on Part III - Body and action representations for integrating self and other

from Part III - Bodily correspondences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2011

By
Moritz M. Daum  and
Wolfgang Prinz
Edited by
Virginia Slaughter  and
Celia A. Brownell
Virginia Slaughter
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Celia A. Brownell
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Summary

The topic of Part III of the present book is the integration of the two previous sections that either focus on the representation of one’s own body or on the representation of another individual’s body. The four contributions of Part III document how these two aspects are integrated during development. In the present commentary, we will first briefly recapitulate the four chapters included in Part III. We will then integrate these finding into a broader picture and suggest a developmental course of body representations. Finally, we will provide an outlook on how future research should approach the topic of the integration of self and other, what the shortcomings of previous research are, and share ideas on how they can be overcome.

Recapitulation

The authors of the four chapters approach the topic of integrating self and other from four different perspectives. Gliga and Southgate (Chapter 10) emphasize the role of actions in infants’ development of body representations. They discuss findings that show that infants first come to build representations about the function of the human body, including goal-directed and intentional actions, before they develop representations about the structure of the human body.

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Early Development of Body Representations , pp. 267 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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