No vertigo until you can crawl

• Autores: Linda Geddes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2926, 2013, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Mothers almost universally report that their babies go through a phase wherein they will go over the edge of a bed or a changing table if a caregiver doesn't intervene, says Joseph Campos at the University of California in Berkeley, who supervised the research. Then suddenly, six weeks or so after they learn to crawl, they seemingly become scared. Audun Dahl, also at Berkeley and his colleagues, investigated why. They found that the act of propelling oneself around in space teaches the brain to become aware of information in the peripheral visual field and use it to correct balance.