Perceptual motor coupling in obvious and non-obvious domains / tonality and contour in music cognition

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My research in perception-action coupling emphasizes how infants and children combine information arising from perceptual systems with motor action, within the larger cognitive, social, and potentially cultural contexts of development. Within this framework my research has focused on a variety of obvious and non-obvious domains of application. The obvious areas are related to intermodal perception and motor development, and include infants' abilities to recognize their own body position and the movement of their limbs in space (intermodal perception and the development of the self), how vision is employed in keeping one's balance (postural control), how it is we are able to successfully move through a cluttered world (visually-guided locomotion). The non-obvious domains of application include how infants perceive and produce appropriate actions with tools, and how they understand where they are in the world relative to important landmarks and desired objects (spatial orientation and infant search). Generally, this research supports the idea that infants coordinate perceptual system information (vision and hearing) with how they're moving, and how such perceptual-motor coordination modifies, or is modified by, general cognitive and social functioning.