According to some recent research, infants younger than four months can
squirm by feeling the contact with their feet, but without their nerves being
connected to the place of touch or experiencing the same feelings that adults
may have.
A discovery Against received ideas:
Andrew Bremner, a researcher at London's Goldsmiths University, has decided to conduct a survey to find out if young babies can actually locate the source of the contact they are experiencing.
According to Bremner and his research team, the answer to this question is NO, they can not. What the team discovered on the other hand may seem, at
first sight, paradoxical.
According to this discovery, when adults cross their hands or feet and
someone touches them, they often make mistakes in identifying the source of
the feeling and confuse their own members, infants from six months go to
make exactly the same mistake. But not four-month-old infants, those can
instinctively guess where they were touched when their fingers are crossed.
Here is the summary of the report of this discovery attesting the danger behind tickling newborns:
In general, young babies perceive keys as generalized body sensations, as
they have not yet developed a self-awareness, and do not yet establish
automatic relationships between what they see, hear or feel.
The tickling by inducing many of their senses at once, causes them to
confusion, and hinders the smooth functioning of their senses. A thing that
interferes with their awareness of themselves and those around them, and if
this continues, the consequences may be irreversible in the short term, which
may require therapeutic intervention.
Dr. Andrew Bremner's research team wants to further explore why and how babies develop " a sense of themselves " in the world around them, which will help to better understand the emotional and emotional lives of babies and are implications in the training of the adult of tomorrow.