ABSTRACT
The perception-action approach stresses two aspects of motor behavior that often have been overlooked in the past. First, it stresses the fact that motor behavior has to be controlled by perception and that any motor act is as much an accomplishment of the perceptual system as it is an accomplishment of the motor system. It also stresses the point that actions are functionally specified, inherently purposeful and that prospective control plays a role in any motor act. In this chapter the perception-action approach is applied to the problem of manual development. The implications of the approach are discussed.
