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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Pediatrics Année : 2022

Neonatal Stepping in Relation to Terrestrial Optic Flow

Marie-Victorine Dumuids-Vernet
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Joëlle Provasi
David Ian Anderson
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Marianne Barbu-Roth
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This experiment examined whether newborn stepping, a primitive form of bipedal locomotion, could be modulated by optical flow. Forty-eight 3-day-old infants were exposed to optical flows that were projected onto a horizontal surface above which the infants were suspended. Significantly more air steps were elicited by exposure to a terrestrial optical flow specifying forward translation than by a rotating optical flow or a static optical pattern. Thus, a rudimentary coupling between optical flow and stepping is present at birth, suggesting a precocious capacity in the newborn to perceive and utilize visual information specifying self-motion. The findings may help the early diagnosis of infants with visual or visual-motor deficits and the development of visually based interventions for disabled infants.
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hal-04133283 , version 1 (19-06-2023)

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Marie-Victorine Dumuids-Vernet, Joëlle Provasi, David Ian Anderson, Marianne Barbu-Roth. Neonatal Stepping in Relation to Terrestrial Optic Flow. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022, Original research, 10, ⟨10.3389/fped.2022.877345⟩. ⟨hal-04133283⟩
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