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The recent history of human infancy research demonstrates that the traditional theory of the sensori-motor origins of cognitive development needs reconstituting both on the sensory and motor side. Research on infant perception, pioneered by J.J. and E.J. Gibson and many others, has yielded a great deal of information to show that the very young infant is particularly able to extract information from dynamic displays both specific to particular sensory channels and to “amodal” information common to more than one sensory channel.
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Butterworth, G. (1990). On Reconceptualising Sensori-Motor Development in Dynamic Systems Terms. In: Bloch, H., Bertenthal, B.I. (eds) Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood. NATO ASI Series, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2071-2_4
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