Abstract
Research on the development and organisation of the performance of children clearly indicates that, at a certain age, a child shows that he or she possesses and has mastered previously planned schemes to carry out a given action. Basically, there are two ways of accounting for intentional behaviour: the cybernetic approach, which considers behaviour as homeostatic and largely reflex, and the cognitive approach, which assumes that the higher animals have consciousness and ideas and can think about the meaning of information from the environment. At birth, the behaviour of the newborn is largely reflex, but quite soon the child is able to build and develop on these various reflexes a teleologic behaviour and to interact with the environment. In order for this type of interaction to occur there must be (a) information on the presence of a goal in the environment, (b) information on the actions necessary to attain that goal, and (c) an idea which can be tested in relation to the goal and can be updated according to the results achieved. The overall pattern of behaviour can be described as the outcome of a cognitive process involving interaction between neural events that represent past experience, the present status of the individual and the occurrence of certain events in the environment. The aim of this chapter is to describe the emergence of a neurophysiological counterpart of this interactive behaviour in children, its spatial and temporal organisation in relation to age, performance and intelligence, and its pathological variation in clinical situations.
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Chiarenza, G.A. (1993). Spatial and Temporal Organisation of Movement Related Brain Macropotentials in Children. In: McCallum, W.C., Curry, S.H. (eds) Slow Potential Changes in the Human Brain. NATO ASI Series, vol 254. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1597-9_12
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