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Re:Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurtu... by bolzano on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:52PM (#21118516)
The obvious counter to this argument is that blind babies follow roughly (often slightly delayed) the same developmental pattern and stages as sighted children, with the mostly likely cause of the delay being motivational rather than anything to do with processing visual imagery of what walking/crawling looks like. Both are usually crawling in 6-12 month range.
Re:Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurtu... by munchbunny on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:02PM (#21118597)
I don't doubt your claim, but do you have the academic references for that covering the timeline of development milestones? I'd be curious to read more of this research.
Re:Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurtu... by bolzano on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:18AM (#21123500)
I'm not an expert in this area, though I do have a strong interest in more abstract child cognitive development not related to locomotion (Elizabeth Spelke and related work in particular).

So I'm going by what is generally well known and accepted about visually impaired development (the time line and stages). Here are a couple of references below which might be helpful. Infant development is a pretty noisy process though which makes definitive statements difficult.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/dmcn.12860 [1] https://www.tsbvi.edu/curriculum-a-publications/1053-early-d...