2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Developmental understanding of self-body representation from the aspect of multimodality integration
| Project/Area Number |
23700322
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAZAKI Michiko 玉川大学, 脳科学研究所, グローバルCOE研究員 (90526732)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 身体表象 / 自己 / マークテスト / 発達 |
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| Research Abstract |
Self-body representation consists of multimodal information, such as visual, somatosensory, and verbal modalities. In this study, we examined how do young children integrate information from these modalities each other and construct body representation. After hearing a story including an unfamiliar word of body part, they were tested whether or not they can identify the correspondent body parts using a mirror reflection. The performance of identification of body part was improved. These results suggest that verbal categorization of body parts contributed to integrate between visual and somatosensory body-representation.
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Research Products
(16 results)
