Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood: An Embodied, Intersubjective, and Multimodal Approach to the Interpersonal World

Acknowledgment
Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: An Invitation to an Embodied, Multimodal, and Intersubjective Approach to Development
1.1 About This Book
1.2 An Embodied, Multimodal, and Intersubjective Approach to Development
1.2.1 Embodied Experiences
1.2.2 Intersubjectivity and Second-Person Perspective
1.2.3 The Multimodal Interpersonal World in Infancy and Early Childhood
1.2.4 Our Theoretical and Empirical Approach
1.3 Overview of the Chapters
References
Chapter 2: The Infant-Directed Improvised Performances: What They Are and What Happens Through Them
2.1 Introduction
2.2 About Infant-Directed Improvised Performances
2.2.1 The Aesthetic Perspective
2.2.2 The Varied Repetition of Simple Motifs: A Strategy for Reciprocity
2.2.3 Two Performing Art Tools to Analyze IDI-Performances
Music Performance Studies That Are Relevant to the Analysis of Multimodal IDI-Performance
Contemporary Dance Studies Relevant to the Analysis of Multimodal IDI-Performance
2.2.4 A Clear-Cut Description of IDI-Performances
2.2.5 Between Affect and Cognition
2.3 What Microanalysis Tells Us About IDI-Performances
2.3.1 The Repetition-Variations Form and Other Resources of the Performing Arts
Brief Description of the General Scene
Moment 1 – An IDI-Performance, a Phone Ring, and a Different Multimodal Pattern
Moment 2 – A Peek-a-Boo Game, a Fortuitous Event, and a Resolution
2.3.2 Image-Schemas and Primary Metaphors
Brief Description of the General Scene
Moment 1 – Preparation and Enaction of the UP-DOWN Image-Schema
Moment 2 – CODA, with Activation of the Primary Metaphor INTIMACY IS PROXIMITY
2.4 What Happens Through the IDI-Performances?
2.5 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 3: Infant-Directed Improvised Performances, Protoconversations, and Action Songs During the First Year of Life
3.1 Introduction
3.2 An Empirical Study on Infant-Directed Improvised Performances, Protoconversations, and Action Songs
3.2.1 Method
Participants and Materials
Procedure
Observation Code
3.2.2 Results
Quantitative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
IDI-Performances
Fleeting IDI-Performances
Reiterated IDI-Performances
Reiterated Dyadic IDI-Performances
Reiterated Family IDI-Performances
Protoconversations
Action Songs
3.2.3 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 4: Early Reciprocity: Temporal Coordination and Modality Behavior in Parental Imitation and Affect Attunement
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Reciprocity and Second-Person Perspective
4.1.2 Adult Responsiveness
4.1.3 Parental Imitation and Affect Attunement
The Frequency of Maternal Imitation and Affect Attunement, and Its Relation with Infant Reaction
Modality Behavior in Parental Imitation and Affect Attunement
A Time Window for Contingent Responsiveness and Behavior Modality
4.2 An Empirical Study on Maternal Imitation and Affect Attunement
4.2.1 Method
Participants
Procedure
Observation Code
4.3 Patterns of Maternal Matching Response
4.4 Behavioral Modality of Infant Signal and Maternal Response
4.5 Temporal Coordination Between Infant Signal and Maternal Response
4.5.1 Analytic Strategy and Coding Reliability
4.5.2 Results
How Often Does the Mother Attune or Imitate Infant Signals When They Play Together?
How Does the Mother Respond to the Signals Offered By Her Infant?
What Goes with What? Matching Between Infant and Maternal Behavioral Modalities
How Is Maternal Matching Responsiveness Manifested? Temporal Coordination and Matching Modalities in Affect Attunement and Maternal Imitation
4.5.3 Discussion
4.5.4 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 5: Rhythm as a Prototypical Example of the Relationship Between Intersubjective and Perceptual Development During the First Year of Life
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Early Intersubjective Development
5.3 Beyond the Transit
5.4 The Psychological Explanation of Intersubjective Development
5.5 The Behavior of the Adult During the Intersubjective Encounter
5.5.1 Rhythm in Infant-Directed Adult Behavior
5.5.2 Rhythm in Performances Directed to the Baby
5.5.3 Rhythm in Affective Attunement
5.6 The Development of Multisensory Perception of Rhythm
5.6.1 The Detection of Rhythmic Patterns
5.6.2 Discrimination of Rhythmic Patterns During the First Year of Life
5.6.3 Recognition of Intersensory Relationships Based on Rhythm
5.7 Plausible Relations Between the Development of Multisensory Rhythm Perception and Intersubjective Development During the First Year
5.7.1 The Detection of Multimodal Rhythm Patterns During Gestation and the First Months of Extrauterine Life
5.7.2 Discrimination of Rhythmic Patterns and the Intersubjective Encounter
5.8 Recognition of Multimodal Rhythmic Patterns and the Intersubjective Encounter
5.9 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 6: The Development of Multisensory Perception of Temporal Amodal Information
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Multisensory Perception of Temporal Amodal Information (MPTAI): Conceptual, Empirical, and Methodological Approaches for an Explanation of Its Ontogenesis
6.2.1 Amodal and Modality-Specific Information
6.2.2 Different Perceptual Skills
6.2.3 Development of Perceptual Skills
6.3 Setting the Ground for the Explanation of the Genesis of MPTAI
6.3.1 First Issue: The Prominent Role of Multisensory Perception of Temporal Amodal Information
6.3.2 Second Issue: Opting for a “Differentiation” Perspective
6.3.3 Third Issue: Perception/Action and Its Genesis
6.4 The Ecological Theory of Perception and Perceptual Learning
6.4.1 The Explanation of Perceptual Learning
6.4.2 Differentiation
6.4.3 Exploratory Activity
6.4.4 Scope and Limits of Perceptual Learning Theory
6.5 The Development of Multisensory Perception as a Development of Functional Systems
6.6 A Theory of the Ontogenesis of MPTAI
6.6.1 From Natural Systems to Combined Systems
Natural System 1. Sensitivity to Amodal Information
Natural System 2. The Exogenous Control of Exploration Activity
Combined System 1. Voluntary Control of Exploratory Activity
Combined System 2. Discrimination of Amodal Information
Combined System 3. Recognition of Amodal Information
6.6.2 Development of MPTAI Nested in Intersubjective Encounters: Social Mediation
6.7 Some Remarks on the Ontogenesis of MPTAI
6.7.1 Social Mediation Systems Linked to the Functional Reorganization of Psychological Systems
Intersensory Redundancy
The Repetition-Variation Form
Contrast
Affect Attunement
6.7.2 The Intersubjective Contexts Where Exploratory Activity, Discrimination and Perceptual Recognition Arise
The Genesis of Exploratory Activity: Voluntary Control
The Genesis of Perceptual Discrimination in the Intersubjective Context
The Genesis of Perceptual Recognition in the Intersubjective Context
6.8 Finals Remarks
References
Chapter 7: The Transition from Early Bimodal Gesture-Word Combinations to Grammatical Speech
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Gesture: Definitions and Controversies
7.3 Bimodal Gesture-Word Combinations in Pregrammatical Communicative Interactions: On some Marginal Cases
7.3.1 Some Challenges to the Proto-Propositional Model
Some Marginal Bimodal Expressions
Some Classificatory Uncertainties
7.3.2 Other Difficulties Concerning Conventional Categories of Bimodal Combinations
7.3.3 Negation-Inclusive Combinations
7.3.4 Double Gestures and Compound Gestures
7.4 From Bimodal Combinations to Grammatical Structures: Looking for a Missing Link
7.4.1 Role Semantics or Thematic Pairs
7.4.2 Formal Models and Semantic Roles: Linking an Old Idea with New Observations
7.5 Toward an Ecological Code of Developmental Communication
7.6 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 8: Multimodal Expression in Communicative Functions, Gestures, Vocalizations, and the Contribution of Early Musicality
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Functional Classification of Pregrammatical Communicative Expressions
8.2.1 From Linguistic Functions to Communicative Functions
8.2.2 From an Empirical Study on Communicative Functions in Early Childhood
8.2.3 Observation Code
8.3 Within Our ‘Other’ Category
8.3.1 Ratifying Function
8.3.2 Completive Function
8.3.3 Philo-musical Function
8.4 Final Remarks
References
Chapter 9: Forms of Vitality Play
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 Play in Human Infancy
9.1.2 The Cradle of Play
9.1.3 Pretend Play
9.2 Forms of Vitality
9.2.1 A Spontaneous Integration from Experiences of Movement
9.2.2 Forms of Vitality in Infancy and the Arts
9.2.3 Forms of Vitality in Neurological and Psychopathology Research, and in Psychotherapy
9.3 Forms of Vitality Play
9.3.1 Towards a Categorization of Play with Forms of Vitality
Operational Definitions of the General Category and the Four Subcategories
Illustration of the Four Subcategories
Improvised Forms of Vitality Play
Ritualized Forms of Vitality Play
Pretend Play & FoVP
Role Play & FoVP
Comments on the Illustrations of the Four Sub-categories
The Rate of Forms of Vitality Play
9.3.2 Comments on Rate Trajectories
9.3.3 The Emergence of FoVP: Antecedents During the Second Year of Life
9.4 Final Remarks
References
Index