======== WDL Dis. #7 (Bcc: all WDL participants) ======
>From rclifton@wilde.oit.umass.edu  Sun Feb 27 17:00:03 2000
Subject: Re: WDL Dis. #6
To: weng@cse.msu.edu (Dr John J Weng)

Dear John,
Certainly we see "moving down" all the time in infant development.  For 
example, the infant first learning to reach must concentrate hard on just 
getting the hand on the object.  Often the task seems to be just that: to 
get the hand on  the object.  A few months later reaching has become 
routine, more automatic, and now the reach is in the service of getting 
an object in order to do accomplish another goal (maybe just banging it, 
putting it into a container, combining it with another object, throwing it 
etc.)
Other examples can be found in other motor activities like locomotion.

Rachel