David I Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5760588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David I Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David I |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON D I |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3662-6908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evidence of tactile arm stepping in newborns and its responsiveness to optic flows specifying self‐translation
Although the arms participate in many forms of human locomotion, we know very little about when arm movements emerge during locomotor development. Here we investigated whether newborns would make tactile arm stepping movements when we supported them almost horizontally so their hands touched a surface and blocked their leg movements. Building off prior work showing that newborns make more crawling and air stepping leg movements when exposed to op…
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking
Crawling experience was recently linked to crawling and walking infants’ avoidance of falling on real and water cliffs, whereas walking experience had no effect on walkers’ avoidance behavior (Burnay et al., 2021). In the current study, the behavior of 25 infants was analyzed on the Real Cliff/Water Cliff apparatus using a longitudinal study design. Infants were tested as experienced crawlers ( M crawling = 2.93 months, SD = 1.07), novice walkers…
Does self-efficacy mediate transfer effects in the learning of easy and difficult motor skills
The effect of task difficulty on inter-task transfer is a classic issue in motor learning. We examined the relation between self-efficacy and transfer of learning after practicing different versions of a stick balancing task. Practicing the same task or an easier version led to significant pre- to post-test transfer of learning, whereas practicing a more difficult version did not. Self-efficacy increased modestly from pre- to post-test with easy …
The Organization of Wariness of Heights in Experienced Crawlers
Most infants with more than 6 weeks of crawling experience completely avoid the deep side of a visual cliff ( Campos, Bertenthal, & Kermoian, 1992 ; Gibson & Walk, 1960 ). However, some experienced crawlers do move onto the transparent surface suspended several feet above the ground. An important question is whether these nonavoiders lack wariness of heights or whether they have a qualitatively different way of showing their wariness than do avoi…
Locomotor experience affects self and emotion
Two studies investigated the role of locomotor experience on visual proprioception in 8-month-old infants. Visual proprioception refers to the sense of self-motion induced in a static person by patterns of optic flow. A moving room apparatus permitted displacement of an entire enclosure (except for the floor) or the side walls and ceiling. In Study 1, creeping infants and prelocomotor/walker infants showed significantly greater postural compensat…
Avoidance of Heights on the Visual Cliff in Newly Walking Infants
Work with infants on the “visual cliff” links avoidance of drop‐offs to experience with self‐produced locomotion. Adolph's (2002) research on infants' perception of slope and gap traversability suggests that learning to avoid falling down is highly specific to the postural context in which it occurs. Infants, for example, who have learned to avoid crossing risky slopes while crawling must learn anew such avoidance when they start walking. Do newl…
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory
both the grammatical complexity and organizational principles common to the spoken languages of the world For example, unlike English, ASL is morphologically complex and has been compared in typology to polysynthetic spoken languages Unfortunately, for the majority of deaf children, access to either spoken or signed language is extremely limited. Of the approximately 500,000 deaf people who reside in the United States who have difficulty utilizin…
Travel Broadens the Mind
The onset of locomotion heralds one of the major life transitions in early development and involves a pervasive set of changes in perception, spatial cognition, and social and emotional development. Through a synthesis of published and hitherto unpublished findings, gathered from a number of converging research designs and methods, this article provides a comprehensive review and reanalysis of the consequences of self‐produced locomotor experienc…
Probabilistic Epigenesis, Experience, and Psychological Development in Infancy
Locomotor experience affects self and emotion
Two studies investigated the role of locomotor experience on visual proprioception in 8-month-old infants. Visual proprioception refers to the sense of self-motion induced in a static person by patterns of optic flow. A moving room apparatus permitted displacement of an entire enclosure (except for the floor) or the side walls and ceiling. In Study 1, creeping infants and prelocomotor/walker infants showed significantly greater postural compensat…
Travel Broadens the Mind
The onset of locomotion heralds one of the major life transitions in early development and involves a pervasive set of changes in perception, spatial cognition, and social and emotional development. Through a synthesis of published and hitherto unpublished findings, gathered from a number of converging research designs and methods, this article provides a comprehensive review and reanalysis of the consequences of self‐produced locomotor experienc…
Probabilistic Epigenesis, Experience, and Psychological Development in Infancy
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory
both the grammatical complexity and organizational principles common to the spoken languages of the world For example, unlike English, ASL is morphologically complex and has been compared in typology to polysynthetic spoken languages Unfortunately, for the majority of deaf children, access to either spoken or signed language is extremely limited. Of the approximately 500,000 deaf people who reside in the United States who have difficulty utilizin…
Avoidance of Heights on the Visual Cliff in Newly Walking Infants
Work with infants on the “visual cliff” links avoidance of drop‐offs to experience with self‐produced locomotion. Adolph's (2002) research on infants' perception of slope and gap traversability suggests that learning to avoid falling down is highly specific to the postural context in which it occurs. Infants, for example, who have learned to avoid crossing risky slopes while crawling must learn anew such avoidance when they start walking. Do newl…
Locomotor experience affects self and emotion
Two studies investigated the role of locomotor experience on visual proprioception in 8-month-old infants. Visual proprioception refers to the sense of self-motion induced in a static person by patterns of optic flow. A moving room apparatus permitted displacement of an entire enclosure (except for the floor) or the side walls and ceiling. In Study 1, creeping infants and prelocomotor/walker infants showed significantly greater postural compensat…
Does self-efficacy mediate transfer effects in the learning of easy and difficult motor skills
The effect of task difficulty on inter-task transfer is a classic issue in motor learning. We examined the relation between self-efficacy and transfer of learning after practicing different versions of a stick balancing task. Practicing the same task or an easier version led to significant pre- to post-test transfer of learning, whereas practicing a more difficult version did not. Self-efficacy increased modestly from pre- to post-test with easy …
The Organization of Wariness of Heights in Experienced Crawlers
Most infants with more than 6 weeks of crawling experience completely avoid the deep side of a visual cliff ( Campos, Bertenthal, & Kermoian, 1992 ; Gibson & Walk, 1960 ). However, some experienced crawlers do move onto the transparent surface suspended several feet above the ground. An important question is whether these nonavoiders lack wariness of heights or whether they have a qualitatively different way of showing their wariness than do avoi…
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking
Crawling experience was recently linked to crawling and walking infants’ avoidance of falling on real and water cliffs, whereas walking experience had no effect on walkers’ avoidance behavior (Burnay et al., 2021). In the current study, the behavior of 25 infants was analyzed on the Real Cliff/Water Cliff apparatus using a longitudinal study design. Infants were tested as experienced crawlers ( M crawling = 2.93 months, SD = 1.07), novice walkers…
Evidence of tactile arm stepping in newborns and its responsiveness to optic flows specifying self‐translation
Although the arms participate in many forms of human locomotion, we know very little about when arm movements emerge during locomotor development. Here we investigated whether newborns would make tactile arm stepping movements when we supported them almost horizontally so their hands touched a surface and blocked their leg movements. Building off prior work showing that newborns make more crawling and air stepping leg movements when exposed to op…
Psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Crawling (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Physical medicine and rehabilitation (3 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (2 works)