ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2017
Behavioral flexibility in learning to sit.
Article in Developmental psychobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sit and face the world: ontogenetic adaptation in infant vocal production and visual attention during the transition to independent sitting.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Quantifying Infant Exploratory Learning.Journal of motor learning and development · 2022Article
- Real-Time Assembly of Coordination Patterns in Human Infants.Current biology : CB · 2020Observational
- Infants plan prehension while pivoting.Developmental psychobiology · 2019Article
- Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling.Annual review of psychology · 2019Review
- An update of the development of motor behavior.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceReview
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Abstract
What do infants learn when they learn to sit upright? We tested behavioral flexibility in learning to sit-the ability to adapt posture to changes in the environment-in 6- to 9-month-old infants sitting on forward and backward slopes. Infants began with slant at 0°; then slant increased in 2° increments until infants lost balance. Infants kept balance on impressively steep slopes, especially in the forward direction, despite the unexpected movements of the apparatus. Between slant adjustments while the slope was stationary, infants adapted posture to the direction and degree of slant by leaning backward on forward slopes and forward on backward slopes. Postural adaptations were nearly optimal for backward slopes. Sitting experience predicted greater postural adaptations and increased ability to keep balance on steeper changes of slant, but only for forward slopes. We suggest that behavioral flexibility is integral to learning to sit and increases with sitting experience.
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