Professors: Claes Von Hofsten and Kerstin Rosander

Development of Perception and Action. Professors: Claes von Hofsten and Kerstin Rosander

The course is based on readings of various aspects of perception and action. We will have 12 seminars that discuss different perception - action topics. At each occasion we will discuss a particular set of problems related to how infants perceive and act on the world. For this purpose each student will have to formulate two problems related to the topic in question. These problems will be discussed at the seminar. In addition one or two students will introduce the topic of the seminar. These tasks will also constitute the examination of the course. The suggested literature list will be found below.

17.9 9:00-10:30 Seminar1: The essence of Actions. - von Hofsten, C. (2014)Predictive actions. Ecological Psychology, 26, 79-87. - von Hofsten, C. (1982). Eye-hand coordination in newborns. Developmental Psychology , 18, 450-461.

24.9 Seminar 2: 9:00-10:30 Perceptual and motor foundations - Gibson, J.J. (1979) The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. Ch.8 127-144, Ch.14, 238-263, - von Hofsten, C. and Lee, D.N. (1982) Dialogue on perception and action. Human Movement Science, 1, 125-138. - Bizzi, E. & Ajemian, R. (2015) A hard scientific quest: Understanding voluntary movements. Daedalus, 144, 83-95.

1.10. Seminar 3: 9:00-10:30 Cognitive foundations. Core knowledge. Embodied cognition - Gibson E.J. (1988) Exploratory behavior in the development of perceiving, acting, and the acquiring of knowledge. Annual Review of Psychol., 39, 1-42. - Spelke, E.S. (2003) What makes us smart? Core knowledge and Natural language. In D. Genter & S. Goldin-Meadow. Language in Mind. Bradford Books, pp. 277- 311. - de Hevia, M.D., Izard, V., Coubart, A, Spelke, E.S. , Strei, A. (2014) Representations of space, time, and number in neonates. PNAS, 111, 4809-4813

8.10. Seminar 4: 9:00-10:30 Brain mechanisms for perception and action: motion perception - Rosander, K., Nyström, P, Gredebäck, G., & von Hofsten, C. (2007) Cortical processing of visual motion in infants. Vision Research, 47, 1614-1623. - Wattam-Bell, J., Birtles, D., Nyström, P., von Hofsten, C., Rosander, K., Anker, S., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2010) Form and motion VERPs in adults and infants. Current Biology, 20, 411–415. - Giese, M.A. & Poogio, T. (2003) Neural mechanisms for the recognition of biological movements. Nature Review Neuroscience, 4, 179-192. - Johansson, G. (1973). Visual-perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Perception and Psychophysics, 14(2), 201–211

15.10. Seminar 5: 9:00-10:30 Motor mechanisms for perception and action - Lloyd-Fox, S. et al. (2015) Cortical Activation to Action Perception is Associated with Action Production Abilities in Young Infants. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 289-297.

1 - Koziol, L.F. , Budding, D.E., & Chidekel, D.(2012) From movement to thought: Executive function, embodied cognition and the cerebellum. Cerebellum 11, 505- 525. - Baumann, O. (2015) Consensus paper: The role of the cerebellum in perceptual processes. Cerebellum, 14, 197-220.

22.10. Seminar 6: 9:00-10:30 Looking. Tracking and smooth pursuit - von Hofsten, C and Rosander, K. (1997) Development of smooth pursuit tracking young infants. Vision Research, 37, 1799-1810. - Rosander, K. and von Hofsten, C. (2000) Visual-vestibular interaction in early infancy. Experimental Brain Research, 133, 321-333. - Rosander, R. and von Hofsten, C. (2004) Infants' emerging ability to represent object motion. Cognition, 91, 1-22. - Stone, L.S. & Krauzlis. R.J. (2003) Shared motion signals for human perceptual decisions and oculomotor actions. Journal of Vision, 3, 725-736. - 29.10. Seminar 7: 9:00-10:30 Locomotion and posture - Witherington, D. C., von Hofsten, C., Rosander K., Robinette, A.Woollacott, M. H., and Bertenthal, B. I. (2002) The Development of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Infancy. Infancy, 3, 495-517. - Rachwani, J. et al. (2015), The development of trunk control and its relation to reaching in infancy: a longitudinal study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, article 4. - Kretch, K. & Adolph, K. (2014) Active vision in passive locomotion: real-world free viewing in infants and adults. Developmental Science, 1-14.

5.11. Seminar 8: 9:00-10:30 Reaching. Approach and grasping - von Hofsten, C.. (1983). Catching skills in infancy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 75-85. - von Hofsten, C. and Rönnqvist, L. (1988) Preparation for grasping an object: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 610-621. - von Hofsten,C. (1991) Structuring of early reaching movements: A longitudinal study. Journal of Motor Behavior, 23, 280-292.

12.11. Seminar 9: 9:00-10:30 Reaching. Manipulation. - Örnkloo, H. & von Hofsten, C. (2007) Fitting objects into holes: on the development of spatial cognition skills. Developmental Psychology, 43, 403-416. - Ekberg, T.L., Rosander, K., von Hofsten, C., Olsson, U., Soska, K.C., Adolph, K. (2013) Dynamic reaching in infants during binocular and monocular viewing. Experimental Brain Research, 229, 1-12.

19.11. Seminar 10: 9:00-10:30 Mirror neurons. - von Hofsten, C. & Rosander, K. (2015) On the development of the mirror neuron system. In G. Rizolatti and P. Ferrari (eds). New Frontiers in Mirror Neuron Research. Oxford University Press.

26.11. Seminar 11: 9:00-10:30 Predictive looking to interesting sites - Rosander, K. & von Hofsten, C. (2011) 10-month-olds have a developed action plan to be applied when observing others. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2911-2917 - Falck Ytter, T. , Gredebäck, G. & von Hofsten, C. (2006) Infants predict other people’s action goals. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 878-879. - von Hofsten, C., Dahlström, E., & Fredriksson, Y. (2005) 12-month–old infants’ perception of attention direction in static video images. Infancy, 8, 217-231.

2 2.12. Seminar 12: 9:00-10:30 Autism - von Hofsten, C. & Rosander, K. (2012) Perception-Action in children with ASD. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 1-5. Dec - von Hofsten, C., Uhlig, H., Adell, M., & Kochukhova, O. (2009) How children with autism look at events. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 556 - 569

10.12.Seminar 13: Wrapping up.

- Rosenbaum, D. A. (2005) The Cinderella of psychology: The neglect of motor control in the Science of mental life and behaviour. American Psychologist, 60, 308-317.