Seeing, Reaching, Touching

This book investigates the relationship between tactile and visual systems in infancy and introduces a theory of the visual touching mechanisms in babies - a precocious ability central to cognitive development. Bringing together research on the sensorimotor and perceptual capacity of infants, Streri demonstrates that current research is insufficient to provide an understanding of the conditions necessary for the establishment of a unity of seeing and touching systems. Against the background of a spectrum of developmental theories, the author argues that an early developing co-ordination of vision and touch, and of perception and action, underlies the infant's exchanges with his or her surroundings.