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Podcast: The Perception & Action Podcast
Episode: 39 – Perceptual-Motor Development II: Ecological Approach
Description: A look at perceptual-motor development from the ecological perspective. If it's not pre-programmed by our genetics, how does a child's pattern of movements emerge from the dynamical constraints of their environment? And how does movement shape perceptual discovery?  Articles/links: Motor Development: A New Synthesis Infant bouncing: The assembly and tuning of action systems Crawling versus walking infants' perception of affordances for locomotion over sloping surfaces Motor Development (Adolph & Berger) Motor development and the mind: the potential role of motor abilities as a determinant of as...