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Spatial and Temporal Organisation of Movement Related Brain Macropotentials in Children

STS Instructor Authored by Giuseppe A. Chiarenza

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Study at a glance

Area
Learning & Development
Study type
Review & meta-analysis
Published as
Conference paper
Authors
Chiarenza GA
Journal
Slow Potential Changes in the Human Brain
Year
1993
Population
Children
Protocol
movement-related brain potentials during goal-directed tasks

Key findings

  • Infant behaviour starts largely reflexive and builds toward goal-directed action
  • Goal-directed action needs goal information, action information and an updatable plan
  • Movement-related potentials are described in relation to age, performance and intelligence
  • Also covers changes in these potentials in clinical groups

DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-1597-9_12 →

A paper from a 1990 NATO research workshop, reviewing how purposeful, planned action develops in children and how it shows up in brain potentials around a movement. It contrasts views of behaviour as mainly reflexive with views that credit children with ideas about goals, and sets out what goal-directed action requires: knowing a goal exists, knowing what actions reach it, and having an idea that can be tested and updated against results. The chapter then describes how the brain signals of this process are organised in space and time with age, performance and intelligence, and how they change in clinical conditions.