Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency

Aliza T. Sloan; Nancy Aaron Jones; J. A. Scott Kelso

doi:10.1073/pnas.2306732120

Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency

Aliza T. Sloan, Nancy Aaron Jones, J. A. Scott Kelso

School of Computing, Eng & Intel. Sys

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Abstract

How do human beings make sense of their relation to the world and realize their ability to effect change? Applying modern concepts and methods of coordination dynamics, we demonstrate that patterns of movement and coordination in 3 to 4-mo-olds may be used to identify states and behavioral phenotypes of emergent agency. By means of a complete coordinative analysis of baby and mobile motion and their interaction, we show that the emergence of agency can take the form of a punctuated self-organizing process, with meaning found both in movement and stillness.

Original language	English
Article number	e2306732120
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume	120
Issue number	39
Early online date	18 Sept 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306732120
Publication status	Published online - 18 Sept 2023

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Work supported by the FAU Foundation and by NIMH (MH-080838). We appreciate the helpful comments of Professors Pier-Giorgio Zanone and Sylvie Athènes. Portions of the paper were developed from the dissertation of (A.T.S.).

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Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.

Keywords

agency
dynamical systems
cognitive development
coordination
motion
infant
humans
movement

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