{"id":7400,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/body_awareness\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:28","slug":"body_awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/body_awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Body awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention directed to human bodies, including both one&#8217;s own and that of another person. &nbsp;This awareness can concern either the features\/appearance of the body or the dynamics of human body movement and posture. &nbsp;Sometimes body awareness is restricted to proprioception. &nbsp;Based on proprioception (and touch) some (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.emory.edu\/cognition\/rochat\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.emory.edu\/cognition\/rochat\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippe Rochat<\/a>) claim that human newborns already demonstrate something akin to body awareness (and thus self-awreness). &nbsp;It is also evident from various studies that toward the end of the second year of life that infants possess a reflective seff-awareness (i.e., they regard themselves as independent entities). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"kinesthesis\">Kinesthesis<\/a>, <a href=\"proprioception\">Proprioception<\/a>, <a href=\"self\">Self<\/a>, <a href=\"self-differentiation\">Self-differentiation<\/a>, Self-recognition<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention directed to human bodies, including both one&#8217;s own and that of another person. &nbsp;This awareness can concern either the features\/appearance of the body or the dynamics of human body movement and posture. &nbsp;Sometimes body awareness is restricted to proprioception. &nbsp;Based on proprioception (and touch) some (e.g., Philippe Rochat) claim that human newborns already demonstrate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/body_awareness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Body awareness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}