Out-of-body experiments show kids’ budding sense of self
Children as young as age 6 have body awareness needed to identify with avatar of themselves
SEEING ME A sense of being a self in one’s own body develops in phases over many years, beginning by age 6, a new study finds. Researchers studied kids and adults who felt a touch on their actual backs as they saw a virtual version of themselves touched on the back with a stick. Here, a 5-year-old girl models a virtual reality device used in the study.
D. Cowie
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