Social environment elicits lateralized navigational paths in two populations of typically developing children

Social environment elicits lateralized navigational paths in two populations of typically developing children.

The current study provides the first evidence of human lateralized navigation of a social space within a naturalistic environment. We employed a quantitative, observational approach and report on a detailed set of nearly 700 independent navigational routes from two separate child populations consisting of over 300 typically developing children, aged five to fourteen years. The navigational path...

Social environment elicits lateralized behaviors in gorillas and chimpanzees

Social environment elicits lateralized behaviors in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

The influence of the social environment on lateralized behaviors has now been investigated across a wide variety of animal species. New evidence suggests that the social environment can modulate behavior. Currently, there is a paucity of data relating to how primates navigate their environmental space, and investigations that consider the naturalistic context of the individual are few and fragm...

Measuring kinaesthetic sensitivity in typically developing children.

This study presents a method to quantify a child's sensitivity to passive limb motion, which is an important aspect of kinaesthesia not easily examined clinically. Psychophysical detection thresholds to passive forearm motion were determined in a group of 20 typically developing pre-adolescent children (mean age 12y 6mo, SD 10mo, range 11-13y) and a group of 10 healthy adults (mean age 29y 10mo...

Studies of Typically and Atypically Developing Children

Kleberg, J. L. 2018. Visual Attention to Faces, Eyes and Objects. Studies of Typically and Atypically Developing Children. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 152. 68 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0244-7. Abstract. The overall aim of this doctoral work is to understand attentional functions in typically deve...