Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy
Human infants interact with the environment through a growing and changing body and their manual actions provide new opportunities for exploration and learning. In the current study, a dynamical systems approach was used to quantify and characterize the early motor development of limb effectors duri...
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| description | Human infants interact with the environment through a growing and changing body and their manual actions provide new opportunities for exploration and learning. In the current study, a dynamical systems approach was used to quantify and characterize the early motor development of limb effectors during bouts of manual activity. Many contemporary theories of motor development emphasize sources of order in movement over developmental time. However, little is known about the dynamics of manual actions during the first two years of life, a period of development with dramatic anatomical changes resulting in new opportunities for action. Here, we introduce a novel analytical protocol for estimating properties of attractor regions using motion capture. We apply this new analysis to a longitudinal corpus of manual actions during sessions of toy play across the first two years of life. Our results suggest that the size of attractor regions for manual actions increases across development and that infants spend more time inside the attractor region of their movements during bouts of manual actions with objects. The sources of order in manual actions are discussed in terms of changing attractor dynamics across development. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dc769da8f5404bda9d3c0b2b881873312025-08-20T03:23:57ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262018-01-01201810.1155/2018/47146124714612Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late InfancyJeremy I. Borjon0Drew H. Abney1Linda B. Smith2Chen Yu3Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USADepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USAHuman infants interact with the environment through a growing and changing body and their manual actions provide new opportunities for exploration and learning. In the current study, a dynamical systems approach was used to quantify and characterize the early motor development of limb effectors during bouts of manual activity. Many contemporary theories of motor development emphasize sources of order in movement over developmental time. However, little is known about the dynamics of manual actions during the first two years of life, a period of development with dramatic anatomical changes resulting in new opportunities for action. Here, we introduce a novel analytical protocol for estimating properties of attractor regions using motion capture. We apply this new analysis to a longitudinal corpus of manual actions during sessions of toy play across the first two years of life. Our results suggest that the size of attractor regions for manual actions increases across development and that infants spend more time inside the attractor region of their movements during bouts of manual actions with objects. The sources of order in manual actions are discussed in terms of changing attractor dynamics across development.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4714612 |
| spellingShingle | Jeremy I. Borjon Drew H. Abney Linda B. Smith Chen Yu Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy Complexity |
| title | Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy |
| title_full | Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy |
| title_fullStr | Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy |
| title_short | Developmentally Changing Attractor Dynamics of Manual Actions with Objects in Late Infancy |
| title_sort | developmentally changing attractor dynamics of manual actions with objects in late infancy |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4714612 |
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