Thurs 15/01/2026, THEATRE LB11, LLOYD BUILDING, 11 AM - 12 PM.

Hosted by Prof. Fiona Newell.

Prof. Andy Bremner"Human babies cannot tell us about their experiences and are
uncooperative (to say the least) when it comes to following experimental
instructions. I will describe the window which developmental psychology
has opened onto sensory abilities and experiences at the start of life.

I will argue that when we shift our focus beyond vision and hearing to
consider the full gamut of early embodied sensory experience (e.g.,
mediated by crossmodal interactions with touch), evidence indicates that
young infants may have a strikingly different experience of their own
bodies and their place in the external environment, leading to the
proposal that young infants’ experience of themselves could be
described as “free-floating". As well as attempting to shed light on how
bodily experience is constructed in neurotypical infants, I will also explain
some of the recent insights which we are gaining from infants with very
different early experiences – for instance when born without vision."

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