The CEU Cognitive Development Center cordially invites you to a talk (as
part of its seminar series)
by
*Prof. Andrew Bremner,*
*(Goldsmith, University of London)*
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Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Cognitive Development Center, Seminar Room, Budapest, Hattyu
street 14, 3rd floor
*The multisensory milieu in early life: *
*How infants and children construct multisensory representations of their
bodies and the world*
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Our various sense organs develop according to widely varying timetables
across pre- and post-natal life. Each sense organ provides information in
largely different neural codes (vision codes space in retinotopic
coordinates, touch in somatotopic coordinates and so on), and according to
different schedules of environmental and sensory transduction. To further
complicate matters, the spatial relationships between the senses vary
substantially with movements of the body, like when the eyes move in their
sockets or when the body changes shape as it grows during development. I
will describe our current research which addresses how infants and children
manage to combine these multiple signals into unified functional
representations of the world and themselves, focussing especially on the
development of an ability to appropriately combine visual, tactile, and
proprioceptive cues to hand position. Whilst the current dominant theories
concerning multisensory development agree that infants are able to encode
“amodal” spatial aspects of the multisensory environment relatively
independently of sensory experience, I will argue that the evidence in
support of this view has important limitations, and that our abilities to
perceive multisensory spatial and temporal aspects of one’s body and the
world have extended developmental trajectories which depend on sensorimotor
experience.*
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We're looking forward to see you there !
Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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2013/10/30 Gyorgyne Finta <Szabor(a)ceu.hu>
The CEU Cognitive Development Center cordially
invites you to a talk (as
part of its seminar series)
by
*Prof. Andrew Bremner, *
*(Goldsmith, University of London)*
*** ***
Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Cognitive Development Center, Seminar Room, Budapest, Hattyu
street 14, 3rd floor
*Title and abstract of the talk is to be announced next week.*
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We're looking forward to see you there !
Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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