par Legrain, Laure 
;Cleeremans, Axel ;Destrebecqz, Arnaud
Référence Consciousness and cognition
Publication Publié, 2011
;Cleeremans, Axel ;Destrebecqz, Arnaud Référence Consciousness and cognition
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This paper focuses on the development of explicit self-awareness in children. Mirror self- recognition has been the most popular paradigm used to assess this ability in children. Nevertheless, according to Rochat (2003), there are, at least, three different levels of explicit self-awareness. We therefore designed three different self-recognition tasks, each corre- sponding to one of these levels (a mirror self-recognition task, a picture self-recognition task and a masked self-recognition task). We observed a decrease in performance across the three tasks. This supports a developmental scale in self-awareness. Besides, the masked self-recog- nition performance makes it possible to assess the final and the most sophisticated level of self-awareness, i.e. the external self. To our best knowledge, this task is the first attempt to evaluate the external self in preverbal children. Our results indicate that 22-month old children show awareness of their external self or, at least, that this ability is in the process of being acquired. |
