ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2015
Body maps in the infant brain.
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- Development of interoception: the critical role of maternal affective touch in early attachment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Impact of imitation abilities on social communication in autistic children: evidence from an Early Start Denver Model intervention study.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Co-developing sleep-wake and sensory foundations for cognition in the human fetus and newborn.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Cortical signatures of visual body representation develop in human infancy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Physical contact in parent-infant relationship and its effect on fostering a feeling of safety.iScience · 2021Review
- The Radically Embodied Conscious Cybernetic Bayesian Brain: From Free Energy to Free Will and Back Again.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Body perception treatment, a possible way to treat body image disturbance in eating disorders: a case-control efficacy study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Interpersonal Motor Interactions Shape Multisensory Representations of the Peripersonal Space.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Neuroscience of Object Relations in Health and Disorder: A Proposal for an Integrative Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Body representation in infants: Categorical boundaries of body parts as assessed by somatosensory mismatch negativity.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- Body maps in the infant brain: implications for neurodevelopmental disabilities.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2020Review
- THE DEVELOPING BRAIN REVEALED DURING SLEEP.Current opinion in physiology · 2020Article
- Importance of body representations in social-cognitive development: New insights from infant brain science.Progress in brain research · 2020Review
- Reaching to the Self: The Development of Infants' Ability to Localize Targets on the Body.Psychological science · 2019Article
- Ubiquitous Neocortical Decoding of Tactile Input Patterns.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2019Article
- Experimental Evidence of Structural Representation of Hands in Early Infancy.International journal of behavioral development · 2019Article
- Brain-Inspired Coding of Robot Body Schema Through Visuo-Motor Integration of Touched Events.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2019Article
- The somatosensory mismatch negativity as a window into body representations in infancy.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2018Article
- Neural measures of anticipatory bodily attention in children: Relations with executive function.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
- Infant brain responses to felt and observed touch of hands and feet: an MEG study.Developmental science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Researchers have examined representations of the body in the adult brain but relatively little attention has been paid to ontogenetic aspects of neural body maps in human infants. Novel applications of methods for recording brain activity in infants are delineating cortical body maps in the first months of life. Body maps may facilitate infants' registration of similarities between self and other - an ability that is foundational to developing social cognition. Alterations in interpersonal aspects of body representations might also contribute to social deficits in certain neurodevelopmental disorders.
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