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Early development of body representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2007

Tamara Christie  and
Virginia Slaughter
Tamara Christie
Affiliation:
Early Cognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. t.christie@psy.uq.edu.auhttp://www.psy.uq.edu.au/people/personal.html?id=682vps@psy.uq.edu.auhttp://www.psy.uq.edu.au/people/personal.html?id=35
Virginia Slaughter
Affiliation:
Early Cognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. t.christie@psy.uq.edu.auhttp://www.psy.uq.edu.au/people/personal.html?id=682vps@psy.uq.edu.auhttp://www.psy.uq.edu.au/people/personal.html?id=35
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Abstract

The dissociations among body representations that Dijkerman & de Haan (D&dH) describe are also supported by developmental evidence. Developmental dissociations among different types of body-related representations suggest distinct functional systems from the start, rather than progressive differentiation.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 203 - 204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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