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  • Developmental psychology
  • Motor control
  • Visual perception

Background:

  • Crawling is a key motor milestone influencing infant development.
  • Hands-and-knees crawling involves significant postural control demands.
  • Infants utilize optic flow for balance, especially in the periphery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if belly crawling, unlike hands-and-knees crawling, alters visual proprioception for postural sway.
  • To compare the development of visual-postural coupling in hands-and-knees crawlers, belly crawlers, and pre-crawlers.

Main Methods:

  • Infants were exposed to a moving room to assess postural sway.
  • Postural responsiveness to visual stimuli was measured in three groups: hands-and-knees crawlers, belly crawlers, and pre-crawlers.
  • Crawling experience was controlled for between groups.

Main Results:

  • Hands-and-knees crawlers demonstrated significantly higher postural responsiveness to visual stimuli compared to belly crawlers and pre-crawlers.
  • Visual-postural coupling was significantly stronger in infants who crawled on hands and knees.
  • Belly crawling showed less impact on visual-postural coupling, potentially due to attentional demands.

Conclusions:

  • The balance demands of hands-and-knees crawling are crucial for developing visual proprioception and balance control.
  • Belly crawling may not induce the same visual-proprioceptive adaptations due to its different motor and attentional requirements.
  • These findings highlight the role of specific motor experiences in shaping sensory-motor integration during infancy.