Developmental understanding of self-body representation from the aspect of multimodality integration

自我身体表征由多通道信息组成，如视觉、躯体感觉和言语通道。在本研究中，我们考察了幼儿如何整合来自这些通道的信息，并构建身体表征。在听完一个故事，包括一个不熟悉的身体部位的单词后，他们被测试是否可以通过镜子反射来识别相应的身体部位。提高了人体部位识别的性能。这些结果表明，身体部位的言语分类有助于整合视觉和体感身体表征。

Self-body representation consists of multimodal information, such as visual, somatosensory, and verbal modalities. In this study, we examined how do young children integrate information from these modalities each other and construct body representation. After hearing a story including an unfamiliar word of body part, they were tested whether or not they can identify the correspondent body parts using a mirror reflection. The performance of identification of body part was improved. These results suggest that verbal categorization of body parts contributed to integrate between visual and somatosensory body-representation.