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9 - The Development of Touch Perception and Body Representation

from Part II - Perceptual Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2020

By
Andrew J. Bremner
Edited by
Jeffrey J. Lockman  and
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Jeffrey J. Lockman
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

Touch occupies a greater extent of our bodies than all other senses put together (see Gallace & Spence, 2014, for a rich characterization of touch). The skin, our organ of cutaneous touch, is thought to account for 16–18% of body mass (Montagu, 1978). As such, touch can certainly be considered the bodily sense, being distributed not just in our haptic organs (typically our hands; see Radman, 2013), but throughout and covering our bodies. Partly as a result of this, touch is pervasive in sensory experience. It is also our first sense: At 7 weeks of gestation, a human fetus will move if its lips are touched (Hooker, 1952).

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Touch perceptioninfant body representationtactile perceptionhapticsself/body sensingaffective touchneural substrates of touchinfant self representationinfant proprioception;
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The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development
Brain, Behavior, and Cultural Context
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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