Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 37722059.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1073/pnas.2306732120 and PMC identifier 10523583.
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Abstract
How do human beings make sense of their relation to the world and realize their ability to effect change? Applying modern concepts and methods of coordination dynamics, we demonstrate that patterns of movement and coordination in 3 to 4-mo-olds may be used to identify states and behavioral phenotypes of emergent agency. By means of a complete coordinative analysis of baby and mobile motion and their interaction, we show that the emergence of agency can take the form of a punctuated self-organizing process, with meaning found both in movement and stillness.
Medical subject headings
- Movement