Abstract
Categorisation of observable motor acts in babies became a necessity when it was acknowledged that neonatal motricity was neither completely unpredictable and disorganised, nor solely reducible to a collection of reflexes dependent on the maturation of the nervous system.
The purpose of this paper is to examine several motor act categorisations in order to define the developmental models and the models of the baby that they promote.
The first section presents some orientation to recent works on early motricity. It shows how practical questions encountered in the neonatal clinic, nourish the fundamental problems of research on the origin and development of the human body. This research treats questions relative to transnatal continuity.
The second section introduces a categorisation of motor acts while questionning the nature and function of some of these acts.
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Mellier, D. (1990). Categorization and Analysis of Preterm and Fullterm Newborn Motility. 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_9
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