The Role of Early Sensorimotor Experiences in Cognitive Development
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 4039
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sensorimotor coordination; parent-child interactions; pediatric hearing loss; infant learning; embodied cognition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Infants learn about the world through interactions with their environment. We are beginning to understand that early sensory experiences guide the development of the infant mind and its cognitive capacities. Recent technological and methodological advances, such as dual head-mounted eye-tracking, neuroimaging, and even machine learning approaches have created exciting new opportunities to understand the mechanisms that drive infant cognitive development. Although recent advances have been made in understanding the contribution of primary senses such as vision and audition, many questions regarding how sensory input shapes cognitive skills such as learning, numerical representation, memory, attention, and language remain. Further, less studied senses such as touch, taste and smell provide plenty of uncharted territory to explore. Therefore, we are excited to introduce this Special Issue, which focuses on the role of sensorimotor experiences in cognitive development in both typical and atypical development. We welcome original research papers, meta-analyses, and review articles.
Dr. Claire D. Monroy
Dr. Chi-Hsin Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensorimotor experiences
- conceptual and sensorimotor representations
- cognitive development
- intersensory processing
- sensory processing disorders
- sensory impairments
- sensorimotor coordination
- sensorimotor integration
- embodied cognition in development
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