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Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply honored and personally moved to be the Heinz Werner Lecturer. For Heinz Werner was a man whose stature and purpose give dignity and substance to the study of development.
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The reader will find comparable models proposed for some-what different aspects of intelligent behavior, by Ashby (1952), von Holst and Mittelstaedt (1950), Miller et al. (1960), Gregory (1966), Held (1965), MacKay (1966), and others. We choose the Bernstein variant since it is more adaptable, hopefully, to problems of voluntary action and its development.
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In the classic study of Morse code transmission by Bryan and Harter (1899), the telegrapher shows a series of increments in speed, followed by plateaus. He begins with single letter units (of which there is some multiple of 101), and reaches a plateau. Then he starts up again, organizing in terms of words (of which there is some working multiple of 103), and hits a plateau. He then goes to phrases (of which there must be some multiple of 106). In each case, the number of degrees of freedom increases by orders of magnitude.
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Much of our apparatus for recording responses and presenting stimuli was designed by Mr. Andrew Marshall, III, to whom we are very grateful. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Howe for his skill and patience in helping us design various infant seats, saddles, and supports.
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In the semi-upright position one sees little or no looking back and forth from hand to object prior to reach, though one sees it when the baby is lying on his back with a ball suspended above, as in the observations of White et al. (1964) and of Piaget (1952). With the baby supported in a semiupright position, the visual inspection is all for the object, with the hands being guided by a locational command that seems not to require direct visual checking. It may well be that the upright reaching position provides the child with more usable proprioception and kinesthesis for guidance.
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This experiment is being conducted by Bruner, Lyons, and Kaye.
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Bruner, J.S. (2015). Clark Lecture in 1968 “Processes of Cognitive Growth: Infancy”. In: Marsico, G. (eds) Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100. Cultural Psychology of Education, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25536-1_2
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