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Prompt: Perception

The ability to distinguish your own body from others is a fundamental skill, critical for humans' capability to interact with their surroundings and the people in them. Researchers reporting in “Current Biology”, a Cell Press publication, on November 21 offer some of the first evidence that newborn babies enter the world with the essential mechanisms for this kind of body awareness already in place. "The identification of these mechanisms at birth in the current study sheds light on the typical trajectory of body awareness across development," says Maria Laura Filippetti of BirkbeckCollege, University of London. "Our findings may also be relevant to the investigation of early predictors of developmental disorders in infants, such as autism, where an impairment in the discrimination of self/other is believed to be present." The researchers interpret their observations as proof that babies have the crucial ingredients for body perception. What babies see in relation to their own bodies matches what they feel, they notice just as we adults do.

References: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131121125859.htm

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