The aim of the present study was to test whether the notion of modularization process proposed by Bruner (1971) for complex motor skills can be extended to early and simple motor skills. The motor skill investigated in the study was voluntary grasping. Eighteen infants were tested longitudinally from four to ten months. Results revealed that: the differenziation of the motor programme into its components appears at the fourth month of age; the process of modularization continues as a function of age and reaches a condition of complete automatization at about ten months; the process of automatization depens on the ability of using information from action and of selecting perceptual cues from objects.
Lo sviluppo di un programma motorio: l'afferramento.
SIMION, FRANCESCA;VALENZA, ELOISA
1990
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to test whether the notion of modularization process proposed by Bruner (1971) for complex motor skills can be extended to early and simple motor skills. The motor skill investigated in the study was voluntary grasping. Eighteen infants were tested longitudinally from four to ten months. Results revealed that: the differenziation of the motor programme into its components appears at the fourth month of age; the process of modularization continues as a function of age and reaches a condition of complete automatization at about ten months; the process of automatization depens on the ability of using information from action and of selecting perceptual cues from objects.
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