Invited Talk 4
Thursday, July 21, 13:30-14:20 (International Conference Hall)
The Importance of Locomotion for Psychological Development in Infancy
Joseph J. Campos
University of California at Berkeley
Abstract
When human infants begin to crawl, they undergo a remarkably broad
number of changes in psychological functions. These changes include, but are
not limited to, perception, cognition, emotion, and social interactions. The
breadth of consequence of locomotor experience comes from studies that (a) compare
infants of the same age with and without locomotor experience, (b) investigate
whether the provision of “artificial” locomotor experience through
the provision of walkers precociously produce psychological developments even
in otherwise prelocomotor infants, (c) determine whether locomotor delays produced
by cultural, neurological, or orthopedic factors impede psychological development
in certain domains, and (d) assess whether providing prelocomotor infants with
control over a powered-mobility-device affects perceptual development. The presentation
will highlight the psychological domains related to locomotor experience, but
will particularly stress two issues. One is the perceptuo-motor phenomenon called
“visual proprioception” (the sense of self-movement created by optic
flow in the peripheral visual field). The second is the work using walkers and
especially the recent work on the PMD being conducted collaboratively by Professor
Ichiro Uchiyama in Doshisha University in Kyoto. This work demonstrates the
especially powerful effects of locomotor experience on perception and emotion.
These studies have great relevance for our understanding of the role of experience
on psychological development.
Biography
Education
| 1966-1968 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. |
| 1966 | Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| 1960 | B.A., Manhattan College, Riverdale N.Y. |
Academic Appointments
| Since 1989 | Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1989-1996 | Director, Institute of Human Development, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1986-1989 | Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1977-1986 | Professor of Psychology, University of Denver |
| 1983-1986 | Clinical Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center |
| 1983 | Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1978-1983 | Head, Developmental Psychology Area, University of Denver |
| 1976 | Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1971-1977 | Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denve |
| 1976-1983 | Associate Clinical Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado Medical School |
| 1969-1976 | Assistant Clinical Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado Medical School |
| 1973 | Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland |
| 1968-1971 | Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Denver |
| 1968 | Research Associate, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York |
| 1966-1968 | Fellow of the Interdepartmental Institute for Training and Research in the Neurologic and Behavioral Sciences, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y. |
| 1965-1966 | Research Associate in Psychology, Cornell University |